David L. Lindsey > Quotes

“He knew that the concepts of the borders of normalcy had been explored further and further as science had learned more about the human mind and human behavior. It was understood now that the sick and the healthy mind shared more commonality than differences. Modern psychiatry had placed modern man in the unique position of being allowed small perversions, in one form or another, without being labeled 'mentally ill' because of them. His closet might be full of shadows, his mind an abattoir of fragmented realities, but he can still find himself among the walking, laughing population of the normal. And he can remain among the normal so long as he does not allow his shadows out of the closet, so long as he does not take them out and show them to his neighbors as though he expected them to find the same pleasures in them as he does. He cannot do this because his neighbors are the Real Word and if he fails to function in a way his neighbors find acceptable, then he is approaching the cusp of psychosis. It matters not that his neighbors may have similar or different but equally strange shadows in their closets; they do not bring them out and show them to him.”
― David L. Lindsey, A Cold Mind