> Herman Melville, _Billy Budd_:
>
> ***** But the thing which in eminent instances signalizes so
> exceptional a nature is this: though the man's even temper and
> discreet bearing would seem to intimate a mind peculiarly subject
> to the law of reason, not the less in his heart he would seem to riot
> in complete exemption from that law, having apparently little to do
> with reason further than to employ it as an ambidexter implement for
> effecting the irrational. That is to say: Toward the accomplishment
> of an aim which in wantonness of malignity would seem to partake of
> the insane, he will direct a cool judgement sagacious and sound.
I read someone refer to the above a few months back as "the false calm of the hysteric."
-- Shane
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