Because, it would seem, mana, the egomaniac or megalomaniac element, cannot get satisfied with real things, and therefore goes eagerly out to a false world, the supersensuous other-world whose growth we have sketched.
"Darwin and Modern Science"
A.C. Seward and Others
Ku Sui, he said, clipping the words, you have said that this would not permanently harm me, and, although I know you for the most deadly, vicious egomaniac in the solar system, I am believing you.
"The Affair of the Brains"
Anthony Gilmore