The Air Loom, if Matthews revealed its existence.... : Quote by Mike Jay

“ The Air Loom, if Matthews revealed its existence under questioning, would now be recognised immediately as a classic paranoid delusion. But in 1797 it was something that had never been encountered before, and would emerge as the baffling leitmotif of a case that was unprecedented in almost every imaginable way. ”

Mike Jay
  • From : A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine
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