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There are occasional hidden entries, as the list of diseases—among them the dread mohogus —under the entry for Fowlenzia . (In the VERBATIM family, some suffer from Fowler's pip , an affliction affecting language fanatics who base a slavish purism on a literal interpretation of Modern English Usage .)
Under the headline, Plaintiff faints at mention of sex, Ben Maclntyre, The Times correspondent in New York, reported [11 March 1994] about a Cincinnati woman who suffers from conversion hysteria , a fortunately rare affliction in which the individual collapses unconscious at the mention of a word or group of words.
Taking a detached view is more “scientific” or “clinical,” regardless of what the individual scholar might feel: one would scarcely expect a doctor, diagnosing a victim of some revolting affliction, to accuse the patient of having a “disgusting disease.”
The next time that set of differentia is encountered, it serves to identify the problem in much the same way that a physician, encountering a combination of chest rash, high fever, Koplik's spots, diagnoses (for which read `names') an affliction as measles.
"Taking his cue from writers like Don DeLillo and Philip K. Dick, who successfully blurred the lines between serious and popular novels, Lethem is like a kid in a candy store, grabbing all the tasty plots and gimmicks he can" (Albert Mobilio, the New York Times Book Review ). The heart of the book is the protagonist's affliction and his constant verbal outbursts, which form "a barrage of sheer rhetorical invention that has tour de force written all over it; it's an amazing stunt, and, just when you think the well is running dry, Lethem keeps on topping himself" ( Kirkus Reviews ). A few call the punning Joycean literary outbursts unrealistic, but most just take them in stride, admiring the "highly artificial, flamboyantly bizarre world that constantly upstages its genre format ...
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