" Every one who has had the misfortune to talk with people in the heart or on the edge of mental disorder, knows that their most sinister quality is a horrible clarity of detail; a connecting of one thing with another in a map more elaborate than a maze. If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment. He is not hampered by a sense of humour or by charity, or by the dumb certainties of experience. He is the more logical for losing certain sane affections. Indeed, the common phrase for insanity is in this respect a misleading one. The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason. "
- G.K. Chesterton

(I found that fascinating, especially in light of some of the stuff that had been going on here)

• Good quote - harvey1 - May 14, 2003 - 20:11 UTC
  • Harv now says that he knows what "fits Alan to a tee." - quiet - May 14, 2003 - 23:26 UTC
    • Mike... - harvey1 - May 15, 2003 - 00:42 UTC
      • Let me understand...you read Alan's posts! - quiet - May 15, 2003 - 05:50 UTC
        • Be more upfront Mike! - harvey1 - May 15, 2003 - 12:01 UTC
          • Harv, you ask the wrong question - quiet - May 15, 2003 - 16:55 UTC
            • Yes, but... - harvey1 - May 15, 2003 - 18:02 UTC
              • Alan is not a problem on this site - carefuluniverse - May 15, 2003 - 18:54 UTC
                • Yes and no - harvey1 - May 15, 2003 - 19:32 UTC
                  • What evidence do you have that "someone is hurting themselves"? - carefuluniverse - May 16, 2003 - 01:25 UTC
                    • Read, Mike, read - harvey1 - May 16, 2003 - 11:57 UTC
• Aurino's diagnosis would put the best scientists away - quiet - May 14, 2003 - 23:07 UTC
  • thank you for sympathy Mike - dolphin - May 15, 2003 - 07:00 UTC