Paranoia And Contentment
Subtitle: A Personal Essay on Western Thought
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: November 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780813925097
Subjects: Philosophy of mind; Social History; History: World; History; Philosophy; History & Surveys - General; Essays
First sentence: I had been fooled by the paranoidic a thousand times before, like at New York's Grand Central one time when I paced around waiting to meet a friend and found myself trying to discern the looks of all the rushing travelers just in case there was someone I might have known in an accidental way, all the while hearing only the voices flowing overhead from the balconyso distinct from the drone below, and a dog barking somewhere, like there always is, even though dogs aren't allowed inside Grand Central Station.