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There is also the case of being disillusioned by any one of those events, and asking "where did it all go wrong", and going back and reappraising, and so on.

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Dec 1st, 2006 at 11:58:39 AM EST
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Oh, and your comment reminds me, the Soviet games played around the Spanish Civil War as also "did it" for many people (two literary examples: Orwell's Farewell to Catalonia, Koestler's Darkness at Noon).

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Fri Dec 1st, 2006 at 02:38:59 PM EST
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