The Illicit Happiness Of Other People

When they saw a funeral procession on the road, a body being taken for cremation, they would giggle.

the inevitability of happiness, the persistence of happiness. Happiness as an inescapable fate, not a pursuit.

When they reach the clinic, the guard sees the state Ousep is in and will not let them in. Ousep throws his press card at him and says, ‘Do you know who I am?’ The guard screams to another guard inside, ‘A man here has forgotten who he is. Is the psychiatrist on duty?’ And the guards laugh. Ousep threatens to call the chief minister. The guard says

There are only two impressive facts he knows. For some reason they have stuck in his head – the full form of KGB, which is Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti, and Pele’s real name, which is Edson Arantes do Nascimento.

the Corpse Syndrome had an opposite condition. Are there people in this world who feel very alive, who feel every moment of their days as if life inside them is the greatest force in the universe. People who are hopelessly happy. I told him that for some strange reason neuropsychiatry does not deal with such conditions – it deals with conditions th

He told me that the very objective of a delusion is to spread, to colonize other neurological systems. That is its purpose. There is no evidence to support this but it does appear sometimes that the boy was right.’

Do you know something, Thoma, even today, in some African tribes, lullabies and funeral songs are the same.’

He opens his eyes looking totally stunned. He screams, ‘Shit, I am a cartoon.’

Can people really tell the difference between normal children and abnormal children? That somehow reminds him of the type of people who can tell the difference between good poetry and bad poetry.