For truth be told, I was tormented by perceptions and their corollary temptation which from a social definition rendered me unsane, though from a mor… - Norman Spinrad

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For truth be told, I was tormented by perceptions and their corollary temptation which from a social definition rendered me unsane, though from a more absolute viewpoint what I might be said to have been suffering from was an excess of insight.

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Norman Spinrad (born September 15, 1940) is an American science fiction author, essayist, and critic.

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Alternative Names: Norman Richard Spinrad
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True civilization consists precisely of conventions, rituals, and modes of oblique communication whereby the chaos within and the void without may be expressed and contained within the harmonious consensus of shared social objectivity, thus maintaining our bubble of crafted reality, the necessary illusion.

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