Kiss kiss, bye-bye Remembering Pauline Kael. In love with Benico Del Toro. A mercurial character Former Quicksilver bassist David Freiberg remembers the quixotic John Cipollina. Consider, if you will, how romance is like a marauding bear, but also not. Suddenly, you are seized by fear.
Fear is a natural, self-preserving instinct, useful in helping people escape from marauding bears.
But there are times when fear is irrational, unwarranted, the product of an overripe imagination. These definitions assume that the paranoid subject is mentally ill and, therefore, that the danger is imagined. They also inadvertently describe the love condition, which, whether the subject is mentally ill or not, is cause for concern. All this week, Salon People features articles on various aspects of paranoia. She does not ask herself if she should give the bear a chance.