What is the address for the Swiss hospital where the idiot in Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot" stayed?
And how does one go about being either admitted to such a fine institution or obtaining a job there? In the novel, Prince Myshkin described his Swiss home as such that made me want to live there too...even if it means I must be institutionalized, but I would prefer to simply work there. Unfortunately, I don't recall Dostoyevsky mentioning the location or even the name of Prince Myshkin's institution... (And I know that since I am mentioning the title of a novel that it should be underlined or italicized, but I haven't got that option; so, quotation marks will have to suffice.)
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ah, fyodor, my favorite russian scorpio author. his biographers discuss his experience with epilepsy, and the unusual altered state that preceded the seizures. it sounded as though he "enjoyed" travels through the "void" in the buddhist/taoist sense. horrifying?, but simultaneously fascinating, and, perhaps, even very instructive. after research, i fear that the hospital address remains a mystery, at least to me. ;-)
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