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"Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell.... Kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change."--Marquis de Sade........................................................ ............................................................ ......................................................... "It could be 'true' that Socialism is 'the bastard child of Marxist Communism'--the incestuous, self-binding, patricidal bastard-King Oedipus, where inbred offspring destroy each other in an impotent battle over the throne--but then who wouldn't seek to uncouple the relationship, to interfere with or break the discontinuous chain?"///////////////////////////////////////////////////// //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////"Wh at is death? Nothing but a certain aspect of facticity and of being-for-others--i.e., nothing other than the given. It is absurd that we are born; it is absurd that we die. On the other hand, this absurdity is presented as the permanent alienation of my being-possibility which is no longer my possibility but that of the Other. It is therefore and external and factual limit of my subjectivity!"--Jean-Paul Sartre!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "The famous hypothesis put forward by the psychiatrist G. de Clerambault seems well founded: delirium, which is by nature global and systemic, is a secondary phenomenon, a consequence of partial and local automatistic phenomena. Delirium is in fact characteristic of the recording that is made of the process of production of the desiring-machines; and though there are syntheses and disorders (affections) that are peculiar to this recording process, as we see in paranoia and even in paranoid forms of schizophrenia, it does not constitute an autonomous sphere, for it depends on the functioning and the breakdowns of desiring-machines. Nonetheless Clerambault used the term '(mental) automatism' to designate only athematic phenomena--echolalia, the uttering of odd sounds, or sudden irrational outbursts--which he attributed to the mechanical effects of infections or intoxications. Moreover, he expalined a large part of delirium in turn as an effect of automatism; as for the rest of it, the 'personal' part, in his view it was of the nature of a reaction and had to do with 'character,' the manifestations of which might well precede the automatism (as in the paranoiac character, for instance)." Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari