To fully inhabit one's delusions, to give in to every kooky aspect of one's freakishness — it's a handy survival strategy. |
It only seems right that a group that has so wholeheartedly celebrated the high freakishness of America should turn out to be freaks themselves. |
It reveals that in freakishness, broadly defined, there resides something beyond the possibility of subverting culturally enforced norms. |
At tea, two or three hours earlier, they had, in the freakishness of affection, drunk from one cup. |
So I have no idea by what freakishness of inattention Mr. Shawn had approved my application, a few years earlier, to go around rural Georgia with a woman who collected, and in many cases ate, animals dead on the road. |
He speaks in the hardboiled language of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, but Thompson goes out of his way to accentuate the character's freakishness. |