M & D Deep Duck suspicion

[Mark Kohut]

P's theme of paranoia:
This excerpt on suspicion--"Mason is ever inclined to suspicion"---
clearly shows how it is like paranoia of the self.

go there.

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 10:19 PM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Suspicion, and jealousy, are general symptoms: they are commonly
> distrustful, apt to mistake, and amplify, facile irascibiles, testy,
> pettish, peevish, and ready to snarl upon every [2509] small occasion,
> cum amicissimis, and without a cause, datum vel non datum, it will be
> scandalum acceptum. If they speak in jest, he takes it in good
> earnest. If they be not saluted, invited, consulted with, called to
> counsel, &c., or that any respect, small compliment, or ceremony be
> omitted, they think themselves neglected, and contemned; for a time
> that tortures them. If two talk together, discourse, whisper, jest, or
> tell a tale in general, he thinks presently they mean him, applies all
> to himself, de se putat omnia dici. Or if they talk with him, he is
> ready to misconstrue every word they speak, and interpret it to the
> worst; he cannot endure any man to look steadily on him, speak to him
> almost, laugh, jest, or be familiar, or hem, or point, cough, or spit,
> or make a noise sometimes, &c. [2510] He thinks they laugh or point at
> him, or do it in disgrace of him, circumvent him, contemn him; every
> man looks at him, he is pale, red, sweats for fear and anger, lest
> somebody should observe him. He works upon it, and long after this
> false conceit of an abuse troubles him. Montanus consil. 22. gives
> instance in a melancholy Jew, that was Iracundior Adria, so waspish
> and suspicious, tam facile iratus, that no man could tell how to carry
> himself in his company.
>
> They can take no rest in the night, nor sleep, or if they do slumber,
> fearful dreams astonish them. In the daytime they are affrighted still
> by some terrible object, and torn in pieces with suspicion, fear,
> sorrow, discontents, cares, shame, anguish, &c.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anatomy_of_Melancholy
>
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 6:31 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> p. 16....Mason is 'ever inclined to suspicion' and sets Dixon up with
>> a paranoid Wig- Not a Wig sally.
>> Melancholy souls are suspicious souls; melancholy souls are paranoid
>> souls; melancholy souls project unreal things? ---in jokes anyway.
>>
>> one of the Line fundamentals of the new America?
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