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Posted by pseudoname on July 27, 2006, at 15:53:00
Hervey Cleckley's classic 1941 text on psychopathology, "The Mask of Sanity" is now available free online! It's a 1.4 Mb pdf file here: http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/sanity_1.PdF
I've wanted to read it ever since Kurt Vonnegut recommended it. (He said at the time that it explained current politics.) But the cheapest I've ever found it is $70 used. I don't know about the web host's "fair use" claim, but I'll let them deal with that.
Cleckley also co-wrote "The Three Faces of Eve".
Posted by Declan on July 28, 2006, at 3:14:12
In reply to Cleckley’s “Mask of Sanity” online!, posted by pseudoname on July 27, 2006, at 15:53:00
Kurt Vonnegut said he was going to sue the tobacco companies for failing to give him lung cancer.
My computer skills are more or less restricted to typing and turning the computer on and pressing the submit button.
You mean there's a whole book in that link?
Posted by pseudoname on July 28, 2006, at 8:38:19
In reply to Re: Cleckley’s “Mask of Sanity” online!, posted by Declan on July 28, 2006, at 3:14:12
> My computer skills are more or less restricted to typing and turning the computer on and pressing the submit button.
Typing is not a skill to be lightly dismissed. A hundred years ago, many businesses still conducted everything in handwriting, even huge contracts and lawsuit filings. Court decisions were handwritten. If they were important, the original would be taken to a printer who would set the proof based on, say, Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior's penmanship.
Sorry. I find office practices of the 19th century captivating.
> You mean there's a whole book in that link?
Merely click on this http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/sanity_1.PdF and in a few minutes (depending on the speed of your connection) the huge file will download and then should open itself. If it doesn't, post again.
This pdf edition was created by optical character-reading software from a scan of the 1988 reprint. I notice that it contains a lot of errors that OCR software supposedly doesn't make anymore. I'll tell ya: Holmes' typesetter wouldn't have made those mistakes.
Posted by Declan on July 28, 2006, at 15:09:14
In reply to Adobe® Acrobat™ files » Declan, posted by pseudoname on July 28, 2006, at 8:38:19
485 pages stored somewhere (harddrive?) on my computer.
Do I have enough ink?
Posted by pseudoname on July 28, 2006, at 15:25:35
In reply to Re: Adobe® Acrobat™ files, posted by Declan on July 28, 2006, at 15:09:14
> 485 pages stored somewhere (harddrive?) on my computer.
But you can see it on your screen? Excellent!
> Do I have enough ink?
That's like half a tree of paper.
I read toward the end (in the later addenda) one guy said that psychopaths should sign a power-of-attorney and turn over control of all their finances to their therapist!!
Posted by Declan on July 28, 2006, at 18:47:01
In reply to Re: Adobe® Acrobat™ files » Declan, posted by pseudoname on July 28, 2006, at 15:25:35
I shall read this with interest.
Was William Burroughs right about the animal grace of the psycopath?
Kurt Vonnegut must have been thinking of someone else.
My model of the psycopath was someone hugely charming and completely calm, quite without guilt....almost a model of sanity.
Posted by sleepygirl on July 29, 2006, at 12:18:46
In reply to Cleckley’s “Mask of Sanity” online!, posted by pseudoname on July 27, 2006, at 15:53:00
wow pseudoname...thanks!
nice link :-)
I've been curious about this subject.
Have you read it yet?
-sg
Posted by pseudoname on July 29, 2006, at 12:28:54
In reply to Re: Cleckley’s “Mask of Sanity” online! » pseudoname, posted by sleepygirl on July 29, 2006, at 12:18:46
Hi, sleepygirl.
> wow pseudoname...thanks!
You're welcome! I'm glad you like it.
> Have you read it yet?
No. Right now I'm finishing "A Confederacy of Dunces", but I'm very interested in the Cleckley book.
Posted by Declan on July 29, 2006, at 12:41:58
In reply to Cleckley’s “Mask of Sanity” online!, posted by pseudoname on July 27, 2006, at 15:53:00
The bits I've read of 'The Mask of Sanity' have been great. But I shall have to print it out to read it all without doing my back in.
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