006: VIDEO | ACTION

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[January first, and the new year's starting off with a beaut of a day. In case you missed it, the video display is tilted upward to a sky of perfect blue, then down, to golden sand and golden skin - winter has just about bleached him of a tan but his colouring has a natural aversion to pallor

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[othersdie]

Is there a significant difference between going crazy and making something up?

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That depends on your opinion of small children and fiction authors.

[othersdie]

Then no.

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Awareness of the delusion is the difference.

[othersdie]

Who's aware--the children or the authors?

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Both. Which is why neither condition's listed as a psychiatric disorder.

[othersdie]

That's just as well. The writers probably have enough psychiatric disorders as it is.

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Run into a nasty bedtime story, as a child?

[othersdie]

Why would you say that?

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You seem to have an aversion to the people who write them.

[othersdie]

Mm. I like them, but they're not always sane.

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Accountants aren't always sane.

[othersdie]

Accountants are probably worse than writers.

[intheblanks]

That's a turn about. Up until a minute ago I'd had you down as anti-dreamer.

[othersdie]

Are you a surgeon or a psychologist?

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Diagnostician. A fair amount of both.