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Artaud's art is insidious; its penetration of what we know is so acute, its lucidity so much the equal of its delusion, that deciding where the one leaves off and the other begins can seem merely a measure of our own delusions.
The cover editorial chastises Americans for remaining loyal to President Clinton, calling their fidelity "a mixture of opportunism and delusion."
The diasporan ideal depends on the delusion that Americans can reverse the cross-contamination of our cultures, our bloodlines, and our psyches--that if we dream hard enough, we might return to a prelapsarian state of pure identity.
The great delusion in the way the media write about vertical integration is the assumption that merging two companies makes it economically sensible for one to sell its products to the other below the price that it could charge in the marketplace.
But Keats describes the bees' labor as a gentle delusion ("they think warm days will never cease").