calamity scream insanity

from Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins

There are essential and inessential insanities.

The latter are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.

Inessential insanties are a brittle amalgamation of ambition, aggression, and pre-adolescent anxiety - garbage that should have been dumped long ago. Essential insanities are those impulses one instinctively senses are virtuous and correct, even though peers may regard them as coo coo.

Inessential insanities get one in trouble with one-self. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others. It's always preferable to be in trouble with others. In fact, it may be essential.