changing the light setting to make Prot more comfortable. Cooperating with his delusion? Or just being polite? #ptjssf

shifting from challenging the presumed delusion to going along with it--the difficulty of keeping one's footing in conversation? #ptjssf

"Let's hope extraterrestrials qualify for Medicaid.""You think I'm crazy.""I prefer the term ill." The medicalizing of abnormality. #ptjssf

"Who is is this time, Jesus Christ or Joan of Arc?" "He didn't say." #ptjssf

and surprise, state security apparatus takes difference away for questioning, although the marginal witness protests his innocence #ptjssf