From The Casebook.

He is, I suspect, some class

of deluded mystic

or some such sainted fellow.

For what they are worth,

theses are his recorded words.

'To know bliss,

however briefly,

transcendentally know it

as a state beyond all others

and beyond all fortunate circumstance,

is to know of it forevermore.

Just to be privy to such a state,

to have direct knowledge of it,

is a lasting blessing.

You see that the mind,

however long darkened,

can potentially be brightened

in an instant, in a flash,

whereupon its pain can be exposed

and sincerely laughed at

as an understandable

but tremendous error.

No. The telling is not the thing.

And yet I tell you solemnly

that this is how it is.'

As already suggested,

he is probably deluded

and a bit too openly euphoric

to be perceived as normal.

And yet, I must admit,

despite the ardour of his belief

and the obvious lack of inhibition,

he seems cool and reasonable.

Harmless, of course.

Perhaps even better than harmless.

Perhaps even good.