Than longen folk ...

... to goon on pilgrimages: Book Review: Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Brontë's Grave - WSJ.com.(Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

In "Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Brontë's Grave," his wry record of contemporary pilgrimage, Simon Goldhill gives an account of his visits to five literary shrines, which he made with his wife, a hardheaded New York-born London lawyer, and two friends. This is a disparate bunch; as Mr. Goldhill quips, "To be four Jews on a train would have the structure of a joke . . . but you could guarantee that one of us at least would always be depressed and overintellectualize the occasion." And so it proves, the running commentary oscillating between contemplation and kvetching.