I have been forced by extraordinary evidence to credit that which ran counter, diametrically, to all my theories. I have been made the dupe of a preternatural conspiracy.
Joseph Sheridan le Fanu, Carmilla
I have been forced by extraordinary evidence to credit that which ran counter, diametrically, to all my theories. I have been made the dupe of a preternatural conspiracy.
Joseph Sheridan le Fanu, Carmilla
age-old ingredients of gothic drama and high tragedy: sex, violence, pride, fanaticism, and conspiracy.
John J. Miller, The Polygamist King: A True Story of Murder, Lust, and Exotic Faith in America
New Boing Boing post at 9/11 Truth and the Paranoid Style links to a 1964 Hofstadter article, reproduced at The Paranoid Mentality, while discussing the discipline of doctrinal purity in “Paranoid Style” thinking.
It had been around a long time before the Radical Right discovered it—and its targets have ranged from “the international bankers” to Masons, Jesuits, and munitions makers.