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Some Notes on Madness

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"My conviction is that the great sea of echoes which each of us carries inside is basically what we like to calll insanity. And those minor conglomerations, the visible peak of which we call sanity, are icebergs, a compressed, momentarily petrified sea of our consciousness; and we turn our attention to them as we always turn our attention to everything divergent." (Juha Siltanen)

In this book, the seventeen authors transport the reader across their own seas of echoes, carving notes on the tips of its icebergs. Some of the notes are general, even universal in nature, and strike a chord in most of us; some are very personal.

But what, in the end, is madness? Something in excess, to be weeded out--or that something extra which is a seed of new growth?

183 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997

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August 3, 2014
Loppujen lopuksi hyvinkin mielenkiintoinen kirja, ja näkökulmien moninaisuus varmasti vaikutti asiaan (enimmäkseen positiivisella tavalla). Luvut yhteiskunnallisesta hulluudesta aioin jättää väliin kokonaan, mutta pidin vain taukoa ja jatkoin tuota hetkellisesti puuduttavaa lukemista. Yksilön hulluus on kiehtonut teini-iästä asti omien häiriöiden kautta, ja mikä voisi antaa enemmän toivoa niin kuin nuo luovat hullut ja taiteilijat, jotka näissäkin teksteissä nostetaan jalustalle.
Eikä tämä tuntunut vanhentuneeltakaan, vaikka oli vuodelta 1997.
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