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...Leyner's paranoid rhapsodies continue in "Great Prentenders," an essay on the dominance of a thespian conspiracy in modern society--the idea that your neighbors, for example, are not really neighbors, but actors hired by realestate salesmen to convey the image of an ideal neighborhood. Leyner calls this the "De Niro-ization' of culture...Migratory shifts back and forth from the real to the simulacrum [that] will calibrate the rest of history." "The Mary Poppins Kidnapping" pokes fun at the over-sensitive parents who worry that all forms of media, even the innocuous products of Disney, are dangerous influences...
...Sheldon grew increasingly defensive and paranoid as his ideas lost favor," Sample says. "As people attacked his teachings, he grew increasingly isolated and ended up that way at the end of his life--reading detective stories...
...screen, a cartoon elf or sprite or something pokes its head out from behind a window, then draws it back. No, I'm not a paranoid schizophrenic -- this is the much-hyped intelligent agent who comes with the box. I ignore it, make my escape from Gameland and blunder into a lurid district of the Metaverse where thousands of infomercials run day and night, each in its own window. I watch an ad for Chinese folk medicines made from rare-animal parts, genetically engineered and grown in vats. Grizzly-bear gallbladders are shown growing like bunches of grapes...
...doing it worth so much travail? This now paranoid critic thinks so. Adair's translation is an astounding Anglicization of Francophonic mania, a daunting triumph of will pushing its way through imposing roadblocks to a magical country, an absurdist nirvana, of humor, pathos and loss. Go forth to your local bookstall or library, pay $24 for or borrow a copy of A Void, and savor it slowly. But stay wary and vigilant, and mind your ps and qs, to say nothing at all about your ... Aaiioouugh...
...easily. Belfi had heard competing psychologists and then accepted the prosecution's contention that although the defendant might be paranoid, he was competent to stand trial. The judgment is debatable. Says Kuby: ``They should have found him incompetent and packed him off to a mental institution.'' But it was in keeping with current judicial practice--and with the belief of many Americans that an asylum is too good for the likes of Ferguson or, say, Jeffrey Dahmer...