How reality caught up with paranoid delusions

it was not in the least like losing one’s reason… I was rationalising all the time, it was simply one’s reason working hard on the wrong premises.

— novelist Evelyn Waugh, speaking retrospectively of his own psychotic episode

This is a fascinating article, discussing at times the sometimes blurred line between fiction and mania, and generally looking at how paranoid delusions keep impressively abreast of modern technology.