calculated madness on the way to the transit of Venus-

[alice malice]

And, One Flew Over is a Moby-Dick influenced novel.

 http://www.npr.org/2012/02/01/146210681/keseys-cuckoos-nest-still-flying-at-50

And M-D is Melville's most Shakespearean book. More Lear than Hamlet or Tempest.

Much Madness is divinest Sense -
To a discerning Eye -
Much Sense - the starkest Madness -
’Tis the Majority
In this, as all, prevail -
Assent - and you are sane -
Demur - you’re straightway dangerous -
And handled with a Chain -


Oh, the history books tell it,
They tell it so well:
The cavalries charged,
The Indians fell.
The cavalries charged,
The Indians died --
Oh, the country was young,
With God [Reason] on its side.
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