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I've been told that to begin a discussion with a definition shows a distinct lack of imagination. Nonetheless, here the definition—or, rather, the list of synonyms—inspired the idea itself. So it seems appropriate to include it:
Entry: mania
Function: noun
Definition: fixation
Synonyms: aberration, bag, bee, bug, compulsion, craving, craze, craziness, delirium, dementia, derangement, desire, disorder, enthusiasm, fad, fancy, fascination, fetish, fixed idea, frenzy, furor, grabber, hang-up, idée fixe, infatuation, insanity, jones, lunacy, madness, monomania, obsession, partiality, passion, preoccupation, rage, thing, tiger
Concept: mental sensing
Source: Roget's Interactive Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.0.0)
Copyright © 2003 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.
From this, please draw your own connections between the items below. The
list will be changing over time, as more members of the tribe appear to me....
cats and authors
Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat. —Robert Graves
A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys. —Barbara Holland
When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even. —Percy Bysshe Shelley
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. —Michel de Montaigne
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