Jeff McMahon (@jeffmcm2.bsky.social)

Death and Delusions Questing for some understanding of delusion, I am reading Cervantes’ novel Don Quixote, having just finished two personal accounts (Salman Rushdie’s Knife and Philip Lançon’s Disturbance, by survivors of attacks by deluded killers). I’m thinking about delusion, the destruction of a body politic and a body itself. Here’s Don Quixote, responding to Sancho’s questioning of the knight-errant’s claim to being “enchanted,” and thus unable to resist imprisonment:“I know and believe that I am enchanted https://www.jeffmcmahonprojects.net/post/death-and-delusions