Having already written a story about a Mrs. Dalloway, Woolf thought of a foiling device that would pair that highly sensitive woman with a shell-shocked war victim, a Mr. Smith, so that "the sane and the insane" would exist "side by side".
All three Great Fire founders have regular day jobs, which is pretty insane considering that their side project is devoted to tackling the world's most prominent internet censorship regime.
The goal: Fire up members of their own group by showing how insane the pro-lifer side is.
We can no longer afford the luxury of accommodating what any reasonable and dispassionate third party observer would call insane views on the side of the opposition.
Every November, a hundred or so authors, publishers, and fans of the literary phenomenon known as "bizarro fiction" travel to a converted farmhouse in Troutdale, Oregon, 16 miles east of Portland, to take part in the most insane writers' retreat this side of Ted Kaczynski's shack.
Dialects differed: on the tie-less and tattooed side, "sick" and "insane" were high praise.
The true, underlying, and presumably unconscious logic of Friedman's analysis is that compromise between a side that is insane and unwilling to compromise and a side that is sane and willing to compromise is in fact impossible just now and will continue to be impossible for some time to come.
"Your side has gone insane," he told Maher.
And that's when I realized that like spouses in the middle of an ugly separation, both sides are completely insane.
Millions on both sides of the insane Austrian's fight for "Deutchland uber Alles" suffered and died because one single psychotic Austrian decided he was just going to own it all, and that insane man tapped into a yearning, hungry market.
