On May 22, 1:43 am, St. Jackanapes >
wrote:
> In alt.flame.jesus.christ, Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD said...
>
> > Behold in wonder and amazement:
>
> >http://groups.google.com/group/sci.m...31f8b5e087508?
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> The only thing that it makes me think of is that you belong in a padded
> cell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renfield:

A description of Renfield from Bram Stoker's Dracula:

R. M. Renfield, age 59. Sanguine temperament, great physical
strength, morbidly excitable, periods of gloom, ending in some
fixed
idea which I cannot make out. I presume that the sanguine
temperament
itself and the disturbing influence end in a mentally-accomplished
finish,
a possibly dangerous man, probably dangerous if unselfish. In
selfish men,
caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves.
What I think
of on this point is, when self is the fixed point the centripetal
force is balanced
with the centrifugal. When duty, a cause, etc., is the fixed
point, the latter force
is paramount, and only accident of a series of accidents can
balance it.

- From Dr. John Seward's journal

He is an inmate at the lunatic asylum overseen by Dr. John Seward.
Aged
fifty-nine, he suffers from a delusional belief system that leads him
to eat
living creatures in the hope of obtaining their life-force for
himself. Being
confined to the asylum, and aware of the foolishness of taking on a
full-sized hospital orderly, he starts by consuming flies, then
develops a
scheme of feeding the flies to spiders, and the spiders to birds, in
order
to accumulate more and more life. When denied a cat to accommodate
the birds, he eats the birds himself.