My American Odyssey

Knut House

Starkey
Starkey
Nov 2 · 7 min read

Somewhere deep inside, where Willy put thoughts and feelings and things never to be revisited, he held onto a fragment of disappointment that his friend had left him. That Pete should leave him high and dry in a mental hospital left a mark that would never fully heal.

To call Knut House a mental hospital would be stretching the designation to a point its very meaning would snap and dissolve into the quantum. The Topeka State Hospital — famous…

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