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Grant Park, Ventura, CA.

If I were working as a clinical psychologist, I wonder what sort of analysis I'd get
from a secular colleague if I told him/her that I had a patient that:

1. Becomes emotionally disturbed at the sight of two linear objects that
intersect at a 90-degree angle, even when such a construction is simply the result
of accidental forces (e.g., the girder-crosses of the WTC on 9-11).
2. Will lodge legal coplaints about this "X" arrangement, even enlisting
and paying for legal counsel to alleviate their discomfort.
3. And perhaps the most bizarre aspect of this client's predicatment is: he honestly
that the "X" arrangement represents an imaginary person and moral code,
yet the client feels it absolutely necessary to expend time, effort and mental
exertion to fight this imaginary person and all attendent putatative (imaginary)
symbols associated with this poltergeist.

Analysis: obsessive-compulsive, with persecution complex. Sounds like someone
who swallowed too much windowpane LSD (and too many times) while role-playing fanatsy games.
Recommend psychiatric workup, with needed medication to alleviate anxiety.