but, if you want to talk psychology...
i'm sorting through this, and i have to point out that asimov seems to be approaching writing these stories as therapy. the text i'm reading through has commentary by asimov, and it's clear enough that he just wrote about what was happening in his life, but the fact that he so frequently does so in a tongue-in-cheek or satirical manner suggests that he's really processing the things around him by turning them into jokes, something every nerd understands fairly well. existence is both painful and absurd, but you can numb the pain by deconstructing the absurd into the comedic.
was he aware of that? is that a partial, err, foundation, of his persistent mockery of psychology?
