The Matrix and

(Open Court, 2002).

The quotation from George Orwell’s

Nineteen Eighty-Four

is in chapter 2 of part 3 (p. 249 of the Penguin edition).

For some discussion of Koro, see B. Y. Ng, 'History of Koro in Singapore’,

Singapore Medical Journal,

38(8) (August 1969): 356-7. A more general study of mass hallucinations is Robert E. Bartholomew’s

Meowing Nuns and Head-Hunting Panics: A Study of Mass Psychogenic Illnesses and Social Delusion (McFarland, 2001); chapter 8 deals specifically with Koro.

James Boswell relates Dr Johnson’s reaction to Berkeley in volume 1 of his

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