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This passage, which comes at the very end of the novels first appendix, is a pastiche of an entry in the ‘British Review of Psychiatry’. ... The passage uses specialist technical forms such as “psychopathology”, “delusional disorders”, and “erotomania” as mentioned above, that link it to Joe’s own world of “genetic inscription”. The passage in the first appendix describes what ‘De Clérambault’s syndrome’ actually is, and gives a ‘Case History’ into a patient effected by the mental disorder, who is described as ‘P’, who is in fact Jed Parry. The description of the ‘religious overtone’ of De Clérambault’s syndrome is described in a brief paragraph at the beginning of the first appendix quoting “The case of a pure form of de Clérambault’s syndrome is described in a man whose religious convictions are central to his delusions.