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ers” (17) along with the writer “[sit] in a cell” (17). This points to the author stay-
ing in an insane asylum because asylums have cells to keep their patients where
they are supposed to be. “Two distinguished medical men… dwelt on our
hill” (117) A place where medical people would be is somewhere where there are
patients need medical attention, and patients need medical attention at an in-
sane asylum. Disa is “canceling an illumination, or discussing hospital cots with
the head nurse, or merely ordering breakfast” (211). These are the jobs of a
nurse, which would make Disa a nurse in the insane asylum that the author is
staying in. Where the author is staying there is an “armed gardener” (295). In-
stead of a gardener, this is an armed guard. Guards are needed at an insane asy-
lum to keep patients safe from themselves and other patients. The author stated
to have a “carrousel inside and outside [his] head” (28). This is the author telling
us that he is insane by saying his mind is constantly going around and around.
There is also a point where someone bluntly calls the author insane. The author
talks about the police bringing a gunman who had “no fixed abode, except the
Institute for the Criminal Insane, ici” (295). Abode means address and ici
means here, so that means the author is staying at the Institute for the Criminal
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