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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

Over the decades, Hart Island has been the site of city jails, an almshouse, an insane asylum for women, a “reformatory for vicious boys” and a drug rehabilitation facility.

From New York Times Apr. 29, 2020

The letter explained that Charles Parker had made arrangements for his cousin to be taken to the state insane asylum two hundred miles away.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers




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