Society and Culture
The Little Sleep, a detective novel by Paul Tremblay, portrayed the main character, Mark G., as having narcolepsy. The character deals with daily, even hourly frustrations due to the general cognitive fog, not being able to trust his own memory and even not being able to drive. Mark shares the frustration felt by many with narcolepsy, that his disease is not taken seriously and that he is "the punch line in a joke".
In Classic Peanuts, Marcy convinces Peppermint Patty that she has narcolepsy. When she is tested, however, it turns out that she just stays up too late and hence is why she falls asleep in school.
In the Mysterious Benedict Society series by Trenton Lee Stewart, two characters, Mr. Benedict and Mr. Curtain, both suffer from narcolepsy.
My Own Private Idaho helped educate the public about narcolepsy through the character of Mike Waters, played by River Phoenix, who has cataplexic hallucinations.
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“One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action—the ability to pass directly from thought to action.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)
“Here is this vast, savage, howling mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children, as the leopard; and yet we are so early weaned from her breast to society, to that culture which is exclusively an interaction of man on man,—a sort of breeding in and in, which produces at most a merely English nobility, a civilization destined to have a speedy limit.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)