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insane asylum



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His football is reminiscent of Ken Kesey’s insane asylum.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 6, 2026

“A collective insane asylum can continue to live in a fictional world.”

From Washington Times Oct. 5, 2022

He wrote about Partition from the perspective of insane asylum residents and prostitutes and, in so doing, powerfully illustrated the unimaginable horrors and absurdities of Partition.

From Salon Aug. 27, 2022

“Everywhere I looked, the place took on more of the aspects of an insane asylum instead of what I had pictured a lighthouse to be,” he wrote.

From New York Times Apr. 9, 2022

It is supposed to bore us into submission or prepare us for an insane asylum.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson




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