Word: delusional
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Alfred the Great remains only a beginning--we need to know the middle and the end of the Wakefield Cycle before we can really judge whether Horowitz has made a dramatic statement of enduring value. Part one ends just as the last layers of deceit and delusion are being torn...
Throughout the book, reality is twisted and torn by the unique perceptions of individuals. Toru marries the madwoman Kinue, who turns her own horrible ugliness into the delusion of stunning beauty; her own reality "became malleable, selective, a seeing of what was desirable and a rejection of everything else." But...
When Willy kills himself at the end of the play, Linda gives out a piercing scream. In that scream there is a misplaced sense of horror--as if the tragedy resides in the fact of Willy's death (a fact we know to be impending from the very start), rather...
That August, the young artist-of whom an acquaintance testified that "a person more invariably gentle, kind, considerate and affectionate did not exist"-had tucked a spring-loaded knife into his pocket and gone for a walk in Cobham Park with his father, a retired chemist and seller of "fine...
Price senses that Stringer is a member of nothing. He has no use for military form; the possibilities of the civilian world seem to him narrowing spirals of delusion. Although he appears humane and sensitive, his compass swings powerfully toward chaos and war.