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Misguided genius

Posted by Marco on January 16th, 2001

Misguided genius
“I bleed over every phrase,” Raymond Roussel told the psychologist Pierre Janet, who believed that his patient suffered a “displaced form of religious mania” that accounted for “Roussel’s misguided conviction of his literary genius”.
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