Mind Webs - The Funny Farm - Robert Bloch
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Mind Webs - The Funny Farm - Robert Bloch

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 11, 202630 min
  • Documentary
  • Fiction & stories

A surreal sci-fi series exploring speculative concepts, dreams, and philosophical what-ifs. Each episode is a cerebral journey into the mind’s deepest questions. This episode includes AI-generated content.

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More than that, it would be necessary to remember the decade as Satterley himself did, and such

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Now, this isn't to say that a psychiatrist wouldn't have helped, and these was a matter

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0:30

Welcome to a half hour of Mind Web. Short stories from the world of This is Michael Hanson. The mind web story this time comes from the book edited by Kirby McCauley titled, Night's Hills, published by Avon. This is Robert Bloch's The Funny Farm.

2:18

In order to comprehend Joseph Satterley's obsession with the comics, one would have to be old enough to remember the 20s. More than that, it would be necessary to remember the decade as Satterley himself did, and such a subjective recall is impossible even for a psychiatrist.

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Now, this isn't to say that a psychiatrist wouldn't have helped, and these was a matter of moral or less common knowledge around Redford, but Joe Satterley was a real weirdo, inevitably his place of residence was dubbed the Funny Farm because of the comics naturally the thousands upon thousands of comics

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