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is, taken to an extreme, the sick mind that orders to infinity, creating small groups, heaping up diverse similarities, then destroying them to create others.

the sick mind continues to infinity, creating groups then ,dispersing them again, heaping up diverse similarities, destroying those that seem clearest, splitting up things that are identical, superimposing different criteria, frenziedly beginning all over again, becoming more and more disturbed, and teetering finally on the brink of anxiety. (Foucault 'order of things' viii)

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