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Mad Madness
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ MAD      id+ | MAD IS BAD |
^u         id+ | ALTERED  UPSET or up set |
     CRAZE  FRANTIC  SENSELESS  EXCITED
     UNREASONABLE  INFATUATED  EXCESSIVELY FOND
     WILD  FURIOUS  ANGRY  EXCESSIVELY ENRAGED
     ply> | WHEN EMOTIONS OVERRULE REASON |
     med>  MAD or SICK FROM RABIES
           sp RABIA  = RABIES or HATE
           ukr         no word equivalent CLOSEST IS
              ZLYJ     IN BAD SHAPE
           sp          no word equivalent
              FURIOSO  FURY
~ MADNESS  as in MENTAL ILLNESS
           INSANE          see> PSYCHOSIS
           ALIEN
  id+ | THOUGHTS AND BEHAVIOR
        BEYOND ORDINARY LIMITS |
  hx> EMOTIONS AND FURY MAY LEAD TO
      TEMPORARY INSANITY AND HAVE BEEN USED AS
  A LEGAL DEFENSE PERHAPS FOR OVER A CENTURY
  MAD   may imply LACK OF HARMONY as in
  MANIA               sug> LUNACY
  lat INSANITAS = NOT SANE as in INSANE         sug> UNSTABLE
  ukr VARIAT      CRAZY  NOT NORMAL             sug> ECCENTRIC
      VARIATZIA   VARIATION                     sug> VARIANT
      DURAK       STUPID                        sug> STUPOR
     ZDURIV       CRAZY                         sug> BERSERK
     BOZHEVILNYJ  PSYCHOTIC                     sug> FRENZY
     BOZHE        GOD                           sug> RAGE
          VILNYJ  FREE                          sug> CHAOS
  ply> | MADNESS is a CRAZE or STUPOR or
         INSANE CHAOS in the RELATION with GOD |
  med> id+ | THE INSANE ARE FREE from HUMAN REASON or
             ALIENATED from CONSCIOUSNESS |
  note link with  DERANGEMENT  DELIRIUM  MANIA  and
  MELANCHOLY as in PENSIVE or MEDITATIVE  GLOOM  DEPRESSION
  lit+ ARISTOTLE [#] WAS PUZZLED WHY
       "... ALL MEN WHO ARE OUTSTANDING IN PHILOSOPHY
            POETRY OR THE ARTS ARE MELANCHOLIC  ..."
  hx> MANY ARTISTS SUFFERED FROM MOOD ABNORMALITIES AND
      SOME OF FRANK MADNESS    examples include
  Robert SCHUMANN [#]
  Virginia WOLF  [#]
  Herman MELVILLE [#] among others
  ply> | THIN IS THE LINE SEPARATING
         GENIUS FROM MONOMANIAC MELANCHOLIC MADNESS
  as if such ALTERNATING CRAZE was normal for
  A VARIANT ALIEN RACE |
  lit+ "... GREAT WITS ARE SURE TO MADNESS NEAR ALLIED
        AND THIN PARTITIONS DO THEIR BOUNDS DIVIDE ..."
        attr to John DRYDEN [#]             <maxim
  id+ perhaps CREATIVITY STEMS FROM
      EXTREMES OF BRAIN AROUSAL
      NORMAL OR NOT
  sc> NATURAL OR ARTIFICIAL DRUG STIMULANTS
      ARE MANIFEST BY THEIR EFFECTS ON
      SHAPING PERCEPTIONS AND BEHAVIOR  sug> HORMONES
  med> THE LINK BETWEEN CREATIVITY AND "MADNESS" IS
       INCREASINGLY EXAMINED BY GENETICISTS AND
  BY IMAGING STUDIES OF BRAIN BLOOD FLOW
  THE IDEA THAT CREATIVE PEOPLE HAVE AN EXCESS OF
  " MOOD DISORDERS " IS NOT NEW
  note PSYCHIATRIC INSTABILITY also known as
  " BIPOLAR DISORDER " to denote
  CYCLES OF DEPRESSION and MANIA
  consider MANIAC  MONOMANIAC  MANIACAL
           MANICOMIUM  PSYCHOSIS
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