Re: CHAT: OT CHAT: Asperger's syndrome
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 23, 2000, 13:32 |
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On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, BP Jonsson wrote:
> And what shall we say about a guy like William Blake? Contemporary wit had
> it that the only reason he didn't get locked up in the asylum was that he
> lived next door to it anyways. ("There is a pearl in Lambeth which Satan
> cannot find")
Wit, yes; truth, no. Blake was as sane as anyone; he was a bit eccentric
in his thinking, and tended to prefer his own views to other people's,
but there is no evidence that he had anything amounting to either a
thought or a mood disorder.
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
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