a PS to Eric Hyman: "Moore...by titling her piece
“Referential” she is honestly acknowledging her more than allusive
indebtedness....
Jansy Mello: I copied a bit about
"delusions of refernce" from the wiki - as a short-cut, since
this issue in connection to VN's Signs and Symbols was already discussed
and is available in the VN-L archives). Although we all know
that Nabokov's story deals with delusions of reference, we forgot to place
this word side by side with the other meaning that must also
be contained in Moore's title ( and mentions its subsequent
developments) .
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wiki: Ideas of
reference and delusions of reference involve people having a belief or
perception that irrelevant, unrelated or innocuous phenomena in the world refer
to them directly or have special personal significance: 'the notion that
everything one perceives in the world relates to one's own destiny'. In
psychiatry, delusions of reference form part of the diagnostic criteria for
psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia, delusional disorder, or bipolar
disorder during the elevated stages of mania. To a lesser extent, it can be a
hallmark of paranoid personality disorder. Such symptoms can also be caused by
intoxication, especially with hallucinogens or stimulants like
methamphetamine.