Lost and Saper

Extremism of fans over a television show, novel or film is usually something that is laughed at or dismissed without further thought by the masses today. However what goes into such a following is deserving of much more than a mere glossing over. Craig Saper in his essay “A Fan’s Paranoid Logic” informs the reader about the instigator of fan followings, Ray Johnson. His life was one of interesting occurrences and odd practices which concluded with his suicide which some over-evaluated and found numerical and mathematical references. I found this difficult to accept and cannot agree with his abnormal behavior, which makes all other dedicated fans seem as if they too will be prone to such actions.