I was never the sort of child who believed in monsters under the bed or vampires, or who needed a night-light in his bedroom; on the contrary, my father...once laughingly told my mother that he thought I might suffer from a type of benign psychosis called antiparanoia, in which I seemed to believe that I was the object of an intricate universal conspiracy to make me so happy I could hardly stand it. β¨ All That by David Foster Wallace, www.newyorker.com. December 14, 2009.
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