It's for when someone thinks everyone is out to get them; they are constantly scared...

1/28/2010 2:48:07 PM

paranoid?

1/28/2010 2:48:25 PM

cokehead?

1/28/2010 2:49:18 PM

normal?

1/28/2010 2:49:26 PM

pilgrimshoes?

1/28/2010 2:49:53 PM

schizophrenic

1/28/2010 2:50:02 PM

It's not paranoid, but that's the closest yet...

1/28/2010 2:52:51 PM

delusional?

1/28/2010 2:53:24 PM

batty, bizarre, cracked, crazed, crazy, cuckoo, daft, demented, derailed, deranged, fatuous, frenzied, idiotic, impractical, irrational, irresponsible, loony, lunatic, mad, maniacal, mental, moonstruck, nuts, nutty, of unsound mind, off one's rocker, out of one's mind, paranoid, preposterous, psychopathic, psychotic, rabid, raging, raving, schizophrenic, screwy, senseless, touched, unhinged, unsettled, wild

1/28/2010 2:55:49 PM

this is stupid

the internet is -----> way

1/28/2010 2:55:54 PM

Here's what I'm trying to do...

I have to do a "close reading" of this paragraph from Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart":

“Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was the groan of mortal terror. It was not a groan of pain or of grief—oh, no!—it was the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul when overcharged with awe. I knew the sound well. Many a night, just at midnight, when all the world slept, it has welled up from my own bosom, deepening, with its dreadful echo, the terrors that distracted me. I say I knew it well. I knew what the old man felt, and pitied him, although I chuckled at heart. I knew that he had been lying awake ever since the first slight noise, when he had turned in the bed. His fears had been ever since growing upon him. He had been trying to fancy them causeless, but could not. He had been saying to himself—“It is nothing but the wind in the chimney—it is only a mouse crossing the floor,” or “it is merely a cricket which has made a single chirp.” Yes, he has been trying to comfort himself with these suppositions; but he had found all in vain. All in vain; because Death, in approaching him, had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim. And it was the mournful influence of the unperceived shadow that caused him to feel—although he neither saw nor heard—to feel the presence of my head within the room (Poe 5)”

Basically we have to form a question about the passage and then answer that question with context and evidence from the reading. I think that my question is going to be...

"Is the narrator himself the one that is scared of death?"

There's plenty in the passage to support that, I'm just looking for some buzz-words. Any help would make my day much easier...

1/28/2010 2:56:17 PM

FUCK YOU! Seriously, is this the way you plan on getting through the rest of your life? FUCK YOU!

yo holmes to bel-air

[Edited on January 28, 2010 at 2:57 PM. Reason : .]

1/28/2010 2:57:24 PM

delusions of grandeur (grandiose delusions)
megalomaniac

1/28/2010 2:58:10 PM

neurotic, psychosis, etc etc?

1/28/2010 2:58:53 PM

Neurotic is the word I was looking for.

Also,
Thanatophobia or Thantophobia- Fear of death or dying. Might use that.

1/28/2010 3:00:20 PM

Be sure to cite TWW as a source.

1/28/2010 3:01:18 PM

Quote :

"when someone thinks everyone is out to get them; they are constantly scared"

this is not the definition of neurotic.

1/28/2010 3:01:24 PM

Quote :

"this is not the definition of neurotic"

You're absolutely right, but that's the word I was thinking of. I could have lied about it, but I didn't want this to turn into some quest for a word that someone already mentioned.

1/28/2010 3:04:06 PM

just wanted to let you know so that you don't look like a DUMBASS when you misuse it.

1/28/2010 3:05:06 PM

There's also necrophobia.

1/28/2010 3:06:37 PM

Quote :

"FUCK YOU!"

Quote :

"DUMBASS"

Thanks for the linguistics lesson. And I'm not asking anyone to write my paper for me, chill out.

1/28/2010 3:08:58 PM

double post, suspend

1/28/2010 3:09:33 PM

mymindisplayintricksonme?

1/28/2010 3:18:03 PM