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Selachian
Oct 9, 2012

The Frog Pit posted:

Layer 4 - Underground - Now we're getting to the mentally ill stuff. This is where you stop and think, "Wait, this person actually believes this, don't they?"
 "Things Have Gotten Worse Since we Last Spoke" Eric LaRocca
“The Painted Bird” Jerzy Kosinski

Can you expand a bit on this one? I wouldn't call it obscure or underground; Kosinski was a famous author, and The Painted Bird was his best-seller.

Kosinski was obsessed with secrecy and control, both in his life and in his fiction -- you can see it most clearly in books like Steps and Cockpit, where the protagonist almost sociopathically manipulates everyone around him.

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