Word: paranoicâ
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...speaking, at least, "Crazy Man" is not totally insane. His lunacy is consistently idealistic. And for that reason, Crazy Man, the novel, more than once or twice during its 200-odd pages comes so close to the ridiculous as to border on the sublime. After all, Carley is a paranoic???whether or not he is an intellectual Christ. But for all that, it is an original, vivid novel. In detail, its realism fails occasionally? especially in dialogue?but the total effect of its realism is good. It is not to be recommended to the Victorian-minded. Its subject, honestly treated...
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