Arrangements missed, dissed, unmade

I rather liked the Wikipedia entry for deranged: 

‘Deranged may refer to psychosis, a generic psychiatric term for a mental state often described as involving a “loss of contact with reality”.

Deranged may also refer to:

In films:

*Deranged (1974 film) a 1974 American horror film.

*Deranged (2012 film) a 2012 South Korean science fiction, horror and thriller film.

*Idaho Transfer, a 1973 American film also known under the UK video title of Deranged.

In music:

*Deranged (band) a Swedish death metal band formed in 1991.

*Deranged Records, a Canadian punk record label.

In television:

* Deranged (TV series) a television series shown on the Investigation Discovery network.

Other uses:

* Deranged, a type of drainage system (geomorphology)

* Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (1615-1648), Ottoman Sultan called Ibrahim the Deranged.

* Derangement, in combinatorial mathematics, a permutation of the elements of a set such that none of the elements appear in their original position.’

I suppose Kafka’s Metamorphosis must be an example of the tendency towards derangement, the upsetting of arrangement. That general tendency to get lost, for things to turn into their opposites. The book that is comfortably placed in one person’s hand is suddenly seen in quite another person’s hand. The necessity of unarranging, deranging, rearranging; like looking at the world from India, Italy or wherever it is we might be imagining that we are arranged.


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