It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from time to time and behave in certa… - Wilfrid Sheed

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It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from time to time and behave in certain fixed ways that even a baboon could master, like Englishmen dressing for dinner in the tropics.

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About Wilfrid Sheed

Wilfrid John Joseph Sheed (born December 27 1930 – 19 January 2011) was an English-born American novelist and essayist.

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Alternative Names: Wilfrid John Joseph Sheed
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