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Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house


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Author Bio


  • NameWilliam H. Gass
  • DescriptionFiction writer, critic, philosophy professor
  • BornJuly 30, 1924
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionOfficer; Novelist; Journalist; Essayist; Writer
  • WorksThe Tunnel; Omensetter's Luck
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship