Word: delirium
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...keeps reappearing under names that are part symbol, part joke and part hoax: Sigbjørn Wilderness, Kennish Drumgold Cosnahan, Roderick McGregor Fairhaven. It would be easy to dismiss these characters as anxious bores if they were not also unholy ghosts, shadows of a perturbed spirit, "ghouls of past delirium, wounds to other souls, ghosts of actions approximating to murder, betrayals of self and I know not what, ready to leap out and destroy me." One always begins, in Lowry, by rejecting the self-pity and ends by respecting the suffering...
...under the blazing Caribbean sun. To fight his mounting thirst he took rare, tiny sips of sea water, and when he could fight off sleep no longer, he would slump over his barrel. After a while, the days and nights ran together, and once, in near delirium, Rafael believed he was being inspected by a huge, two-horned sea monster...
...show's end, the audience was near delirium and jaded U.S. fashion editors at the outer tether of objectivity. "The shouting, clapping, surging mob at the press showing caused chaos in the elegant salon," reported the New York Times excitedly on Page One. "M. Bohan was pushed up against the boiserie, kissed, mauled and congratulated. Chairs were toppled. Champagne glasses were broken. People were knocked down." Breathlessly cabled another U.S. reporter to her office: "Just dashed out of Dior to share with you still-boiling excitement." Wrote the New York Daily News's Monique: "Thundering applause...
...critic, polemicist and New Yorker staff writer. To see just how recondite it is, the reader must not miss the footnote, in which it is disclosed that the obscure Flegenheimer is Mobster Dutch Schultz, and that the Stein "parody" is a police stenographer's transcript of his dying delirium. Such thimbleriggery is a fair sample of the tactics used by Macdonald to create, rather than compile, the best anthology of parody ever printed...
...worst temblor of the early Restoration was a delirium of anti-Catholic hatred. Although the frenzy was started by a supposed plot to murder the King, Charles tempered the witch hunt when he could, signed death warrants when he had to, and eventually restored order. Pearson tells the famed story of how, at the furor's height, a boisterous mob stopped a gilded carriage, thinking that Charles's French mistress, Louise de Keroualle, was inside. Nell Gwynn saved matters by sticking her head out and saying, "Pray, good people, be civil: I am the Protestant whore...