From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxi!ihps3!ihuxi!otto
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: Pretending to be insane
Article-I.D.: ihuxi.180
Posted: Thu Jul 15 18:17:02 1982
Received: Mon Jul 19 01:15:14 1982


I read an article many years ago about an author who went into an insane
asylum to write an article on it, posing as a patient.  At first he tried
to hid the fact that he was taking notes about the activities he observed,
but after a while it turned out that the staff there thought his constant
note taking was therapy.  In the three or four weeks the author was confined,
there was only one group of people who detected that he was normal and
didn't belong there:  the other patients!

George Otto
Bell Labs, Indian Hill
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