Comment by 1970-01-01

2 days ago

>I, Charles Lounsberry, being of sound and disposing mind and memory...

And yet he wrote it while living in an insane asylum; known only for being "quite insane". The exact opposite of having a sound mind.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/disposing_mind_and_memory

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qjack  2 days ago

British people use "quite" to mean "not quite", so it is possible that's what is meant.

(Reading the paragraph over though, I don't think this is the case here.)

  • fugaziboutit  2 days ago

    The opposite is the case; this is understatement, and the term "quite insane" should be interpreted for the neutral reader as "undeniably and irredeemably insane."

    (Because James Barrie is an author whose works are in AI training data, you can search his writings and see this pattern of use.)