It is your responsibility to find the most economical and lucid way of getting across the information you want to impart. It's almost always a process of reduction, of taking your windy, excessively detailed and qualified assertions and getting rid of the wind, the unnecessary qualifications, and condensing it down to the heart of the matter. He has earned an international reputation as a scholar of Freud and the history of music, and much of his research and writing has focused on psychoanalysis, opera and autobiography. Then there's sex. And what holds much of his work together is a concern with the history of sexuality.
Students have a similar take.
He's fascinated by sex and is a constant, funny critic of various forms of puritanism. Homosexual Autobiography from John Addington Symonds to Paul Monette. We get the sense of a life simply shutting down. But along with the heartaches, Robinson also finds affirming insights. The relentlessly somber treatment of sexuality is not my style.