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Compared with Iain McGilchrists enchantingly synthesizing, yet extraordinarily speculative 'The Master and his emissary', Sass sets himself a lighter task and executes it with steady diagnostic sensibility. Schizophrenia as a disorder of a strange sort of isolating hyper-consciousness, a "stare" analogically evident and consciously sought out in strands of modern art.