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horror stories: cages of folles

It reads like something out of Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault. The traditional narrative history witnessed  the nineteenth century medical treatment of what was considered madness or insanity as a kind of  enlightened liberation of the mad from the … Continue reading

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writing from the port side

These things happen. John Galsworthy became involved with a girl whom his family which to distance their son from at all costs. Since his father, who was to be the senior member of the Forsyte family in Galsworthy’s The Forsyte … Continue reading

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