Personal Paranoia

Tom Stanton tstanton at nationalgeographic.com
Wed Jan 29 10:51:34 CST 1997


Henry M wrote:
> 
> [snip!]... I would expect P-readers to have a greater incidence 
> of paranoia than the general population, let alone that P-readers,
> in particular GR-readers, are attracted to this work that is so 
> famous for it.

Paranoia, like pornography, is one of many devices TRP uses.
I don't think there's a subtext that paranoids "get" any better
than any other reader. Nor is there a porno subtext, u.s.b.



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