I’ve never heard of that interpretation. But now that you say it, I am overwhelmed with a really, really icky feeling about Charlie the creepy, abusive, paranoi

I’ve never heard of that interpretation. But now that you say it, I am overwhelmed with a really, really icky feeling about Charlie the creepy, abusive, paranoid, controlling husband. A little OT, but such people always explain that they do what they do because everybody around them is dishonest, conspiratorial, and so forth. But they are the ones who are constantly cooking up dishonest plots to control the people around them. I use Alice and Bob all the time when writing socratic dialogues. But I switch the names around from time to time. Charlie is often Charlene, for example, mostly because I have very fond memories of a friend from my youth who was christened Charlene but insisted that everybody call her “Charlie.”