It seemed to him {Otto Kugelblitz} obvious that the human life span runs through the varieties of mental disorder as understood in his day-the solipsism of infancy, the sexual hysterias of adolescence and entry-level adulthood, the paranoia of middle age, the dementia of late life ... all working up to death, which at last turns out to be "sanity.
( Thomas Pynchon )
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