http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/carol-vorderman-when-x--y--z-the-goddess-algebra-smiles-and-i-worship-her-2185633.html
The story begins in AD830. The place: The House of Wisdom, Baghdad, Persia in the Islamic Golden Age.
The essence of algebra is solving or "reducing" equations to their simplest form. Taking away the confusion and the noise, and making sense of it all. To do that, we have to find specific methods. These methods are known as algorithms – the Latin and English corruption of al-Khwarizmi's name. You can try to solve algebraic equations in different ways. Guessing at solutions, for instance, is one way...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Picture_Show
Billy (Sam Bottoms), another of the town's innocents protected over the years by Sam the Lion, is run over and killed as he sweeps the street.

HE WAS SWEEPING FOR GOD'S SAKE – he was sweeping.

Sonny flees back to Ruth, whom he has been ignoring since Jacy stole him away months earlier. Her first reaction is to show her hurt and anger, then the two slip into a haunting, beatific calm in her familiar kitchen. She tells him, "Never you mind, honey, never you mind."

http://www.bookforum.com/booklist/3925
While there are countless autobiographies by writers who have lost their sanity, memoirs of schizophrenia are a rarer breed. In moments of florid psychosis, schizophrenics can become so self-conscious about how they use words that they lose the ability to communicate. Everyday phrases seem unfamiliar, threatening, or absurd.