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To: Gauguin who wrote (25030)	5/19/1999 6:36:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 71178

Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison. Graffiti, New York City, c. 1994; quoted in the magazine "Science & Society", Fall 1994, p.260. Whom the Gods would destroy they first make mad. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) "The Masque of Pandora" (1875), VI. Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act. Epicurus It is his reasonable conversation which mostly frightens us in a madman. Anatole France (1844-1924) [He was] mad, bad and dangerous to know. Lady Caroline Lamb, socialite and Lord Byron's lover on Lord Byron (1788-1824) Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet, act 3, scene 1 They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me. Nathaniel Lee, 17th century playwright. His comment when committed to an insane asylum. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) "The Devil's Dictionary" And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who did not hear the music. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) It is not by having one's neighbor committed that one is convinced of one's own sanity. Feodor Mikhallovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) _Diary of a Writer_. Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense. Douglas Adams - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence - whether much that is glorious - whether all that is profound - does not spring from disease of thought - from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849) "Eleanora" I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix Allen Ginsberg Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics. Cesare Lombroso (1836-1909) "The child is mad, snails in his pockets!" [c. 1931] "The child is mad, scorpions in matchboxes!" [c. 1935] "The boy is mad, working in a pet shop!" [c. 1939] "The boy is mad, wanting to be a zoo keeper!" [c. 1945] "The man is mad, crawling about snake-infested jungles!" [c. 1952] "The man is mad. Invite him to stay and he puts an eagle in your wine cellar!" [c. 1967] "The man is mad." [c. 1971] Frontis quotations to Gerald Durrell's book, "Fillets of Plaice" (1971) - all comments by the novelist Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) about his brother, the naturalist Gerald Durrell