I think that one would make a person skeptical, if not downright paranoid, by giving them a subscription to Mad Magazine. I may blame TV for making people fearful, with its endless barrage of violent threats and malevolent surprises all day every day; but I wouldn’t blame reading.
I think Dusty not only has keen intuition but also street smarts. I hadn’t suspected Polly Anne - but now that he has voiced his suspicion, I certainly do. I should have known by now that a Corey Pandolph plot is going to get interesting every time!
runar, I think narapoia is a great word, and new to me. Can we recommend narapoia to anyone around here? If nothing else, it’s going to be fun simply to pronounce the word.
I don’t think the person who directed a comment to Dusty yesterday was thinking that Dusty was in that day’s strip … just thinking that the one who would wear such a fragrance needed the additional comment.
Narapoia was a short story that appeared in a volume titled Fifty Short Science Fiction Stories (published around 1965-67). It was written by Alan Nelson.
Aha. I was assuming it just came from the dictionary.
And only now do I see it’s practically a “jumble” of paranoia.
(I’m terrible at word scrambles; I can never even find a word in a tray of Scrabble tiles.)
Funny thing - googling “narapoia” shows that you are correct, runar, in defining it as Alan Nelson did … but soon published literature in psychology used the term to refer to a different “opposite” of paranoia - namely, the mistaken belief that people are out to help you. Sheldon B. Kopp, PhD, “An End to Innocence,” excerpt published in Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy 10:1 (Fall 1978) at 46-47. Who knows if that name for such a diagnosis has achieved general acceptance in the profession, and has it still.
poohbear8192 over 14 years ago
Who cares?
I’m not sure whether giving up MAD magazine thirty-five years was good or bad for me. Sometimes I still feel like a Don Martin character though.
Don Martin steps out. Don Martin bounces back.
Trebor39 over 14 years ago
Dusty’s intuition isn’t necessarily paranoid.
runar over 14 years ago
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you. Even worse in narapoia - the horrible feeling that you;re persecuting someone.
avonsalis over 14 years ago
I think that one would make a person skeptical, if not downright paranoid, by giving them a subscription to Mad Magazine. I may blame TV for making people fearful, with its endless barrage of violent threats and malevolent surprises all day every day; but I wouldn’t blame reading.
I think Dusty not only has keen intuition but also street smarts. I hadn’t suspected Polly Anne - but now that he has voiced his suspicion, I certainly do. I should have known by now that a Corey Pandolph plot is going to get interesting every time!
runar, I think narapoia is a great word, and new to me. Can we recommend narapoia to anyone around here? If nothing else, it’s going to be fun simply to pronounce the word.
I don’t think the person who directed a comment to Dusty yesterday was thinking that Dusty was in that day’s strip … just thinking that the one who would wear such a fragrance needed the additional comment.
runar over 14 years ago
Narapoia was a short story that appeared in a volume titled Fifty Short Science Fiction Stories (published around 1965-67). It was written by Alan Nelson.
avonsalis over 14 years ago
Aha. I was assuming it just came from the dictionary. And only now do I see it’s practically a “jumble” of paranoia. (I’m terrible at word scrambles; I can never even find a word in a tray of Scrabble tiles.)
Funny thing - googling “narapoia” shows that you are correct, runar, in defining it as Alan Nelson did … but soon published literature in psychology used the term to refer to a different “opposite” of paranoia - namely, the mistaken belief that people are out to help you. Sheldon B. Kopp, PhD, “An End to Innocence,” excerpt published in Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy 10:1 (Fall 1978) at 46-47. Who knows if that name for such a diagnosis has achieved general acceptance in the profession, and has it still.
rotts over 14 years ago
“Narapoia” is a “Spoonerism” of paranoia.