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"Consciousness is a very recent acquisition of nature, and it is still in an “experimental” state. It is frail, menaced by specific dangers, and easily injured."

- Jung, C. 1978. Man and his Symbols p. 6. London: Picador

A brief note on lunatic asylums

Having made a brief foray into Batman fiction recently this mostly constituted an excuse to read Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth and complain about the casting of Cillian Murphy in the role of Scarecrow, again. But beyond that it did trigger the beginnings of something that’s been nagging at me from time to time, namely the portrayal of mental asylums in fandom.

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