paranoia & conspiracies

[Sojourner]

At 10:33 AM 7/27/97 -0700, Peter Mead wrote:
>I'd like to ask of the list if there has been a general agreement as to
>TRP's use of paranoia & conspiracies in his books.  I know, it's
>probably humorous to suggest any occurance of general agreement,
>still...

<mucho palabras si murieron aqui>

>	So my question is, has some consensus been reached on this subject?  If
>this is old ground and I'm causing groans here, feel free to grab
>Mittelwerk's gun and kill me with cultured moderation.
>

I'll pass on the hyperbolic, synthetic anger approach and stick to what I
know.

Which is copying other people's information:

I found this to be a synonymn listed for "paranoia":

Siriasis 

Si*ri"a*sis (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. , fr. the Dog Star, properly, scorching.]
(Med.) (a) A sunstroke. (b) The act of
exposing to a sun bath. [Obs.] Cf. Insolation. 

The other synonymns were (in no particular order):

N. disordered reason, disordered intellect; diseased mind, unsound mind,
abnormal mind; derangement, unsoundness;
psychosis; neurosis; cognitive disorder; affective disorder, insanity,
lunacy; madness &c. adj.; mania, rabies, furor, mental alienation,
aberration; paranoia, schizophrenia; dementation, dementia, demency;
phrenitis, phrensy, frenzy, raving, incoherence, wandering, delirium,
calenture of the brain; delusion, hallucination; lycanthropy; brain storm
vertigo, dizziness, swimming; sunstroke, coup de soleil[Fr], fanaticism,
infatuation, craze; oddity, eccentricity, twist, monomania (caprice) ;
kleptodipsomania;
hypochondriasis &c. (low spirits)  [Med]; melancholia, depression, clinical
depression, severe depression; hysteria;
amentia screw loose, tile loose, slate loose; bee in one's bonnet, rats in
the upper story dotage &c. (imbecility)

V. be insane &c. adj. become insane &c. adj; lose one's senses, lose one's
reason, lose one's faculties, lose one's wits; go mad, run mad, lose one's
marbles, go crazy, go bonkers, flip one's wig, flip one's lid, flip out,
flip one's bush, rave, dote, ramble, wander; drivel &c. (be imbecile)  have
a screw loose &c. n., have a devil; avoir le diable au corps[Fr]; lose
one;s head, render mad, drive mad &c adj.; madden, entate, addle the wits,
addle the brain, derange the head, infatuate, befool; turn the brain, turn
one's head; drive one nuts, 

Adj. insane, mad, lunatic ,loony; crazy, crazed, aliene, non compos mentis;
not right, cracked, touched;
bereft of reason; all possessed, unhinged, unsettled in one's mind;
insensate, reasonless, beside oneself, demented, daft;
phrenzied, frenzied, frenetic; possessed, possessed with a devil; deranged,
maddened, moonstruck; shatterpated; mad-brained, scatter brained, shatter
brained, crackbrained; touched, tetched [dialect]; off one's head [behavior
suggesting insanity] maniacal; delirious, lightheaded, incoherent,
rambling, doting, wandering; frantic, raving, stark staring mad, stark
raving mad, wild-eyed, berserk; delusional, hallucinatory [behavior
somewhat resembling insanity] corybantic, dithyrambic; rabid, giddy,
vertiginous, wild; haggard, mazed; flighty; distracted, distraught;
depressed; agitated, hyped up; bewildered, mad as a March hare, mad as a
hatter; of unsound mind, touched in one's head, wrong in one's head, not
right in one's head, not in one's right mind, not right in one's wits,
upper story; out of one's mind, out of one's wits, out of one's skull , far
gone, out of one's senses, out of one's wits; not in one's right mind. 
fanatical, infatuated, odd, eccentric; hypped, hyppish; spaced out
imbecile, silly, 

Adv. like one possessed, the mind having lost its balance; the reason under
a cloud; tet exaltee[French], tet ontee[French]; ira furor
brevisest[Latin]; omnes stultos insanire [Latin]




Hope this helps!

*grin*

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