Insanity
In the Guptara Twins' fantasy world, Calaspia, Insanity is a corrupting force both internal and cosmically external. Jyoti says the idea of Insanity came to him because his family "was always calling me crazy (and still is)". Also quoted as a source of inspiration is Nebuchadnezzar, who in the Biblical book of Daniel was smitten with seven years of insanity for rejecting God, until he learned that for all the material power he possessed, even he was subject to the Most High.
Excerpts on Insanity from Book One:
"Insanity always leads to destruction. Some say it blesses with its own creativity, but it is only capable of warping what is good and whole." - Thybil (Conspiracy of Calaspia, p.170)
"Bryn couldn’t help thinking that the powers of Insanity had stolen over the land, leaving the appearance of life in a sallow imitation but killing the spirit; preserving the shell and corrupting the substance." (Conspiracy of Calaspia, p.177)
Read more about this topic: Insanity Saga
Famous quotes containing the word insanity:
“What is commonly honored with the name of Friendship is no very profound or powerful instinct. Men do not, after all, love their Friends greatly. I do not often see the farmers made seers and wise to the verge of insanity by their Friendship for one another. They are not often transfigured and translated by love in each other’s presence. I do not observe them purified, refined, and elevated by the love of a man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“We have psychologized like the insane, who make their insanity greater by striving to understand it.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“Man’s insanity is heaven’s sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)