Touching concern with factuality
"Paranoid writing displayed, he [Richard Hofstadter ] noted, a surprisingly high level of pedantry and pseudo-scholarship. ‘One of the impressive things about paranoid literature,’ he wrote, ‘is the contrast between its fantasied conclusions and the almost touching concern with factuality it invariably shows. It produces heroic strivings for evidence to prove that the unbelievable is the only thing that can be believed.’" (Richard J. Evans, The Hitler Conspiracies-The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination)
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alibey1917 I don't understand the emphasized part, can you paraphrase it* Hofstadter is talking about the kind of writing that paranoid people produce. They display a childlike desire to be believed, and they constantly offer the reader what they see as evidence that supports their delusion. This is almost touching when you see it.
- alibey1917 I don't understand the emphasized part, can you paraphrase it* Hofstadter is talking about the kind of writing that paranoid people produce.
- They display a childlike desire to be believed, and they constantly offer the reader what they see as evidence that supports their delusion.
- This is almost touching when you see it.
- com/dictionary/touching ) You feel sorry for them because they are so earnest, seemingly not knowing how nuts they are.
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alibey1917I don't understand the emphasized part, can you paraphrase it*
Hofstadter is talking about the kind of writing that paranoid people produce. They display a childlike desire to be believed, and they constantly offer the reader what they see as evidence that supports their delusion. This is almost touching when you see it. (touching - "capabl
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