Word: seabrooke
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ASYLUM - William Seabrook - Ear-court, Brace...
...December evening in 1933, William Buehler Seabrook, journalist, traveler, author of widely-read adventure stories (Adventures in Arabia, Jungle Ways}, succeeded in getting himself locked up in a large and well-run New York insane asylum. His ailment was acute alcoholism...
Discovering that big psychopathic institutions did not welcome dipsomaniacs, whose cure is long and uncertain, William Seabrook encountered legal and medical difficulties in entering the institution he had chosen.* But they were nothing compared with the difficulty of getting out again...
Instead of obeying, Yakouba renounced the Church, dressed himself like a native and turned fisherman. Said he to Biographer Seabrook: "I quit the Church because I didn't want to leave Timbuctoo and didn't want to give up women." A strapping Negress, Salama, gave him shelter, persuaded him not to be so melodramatic in his renunciation...
...after all. Rich by native standards, he has a large mud palace, a large black wife, a large dusky family, all he wants to eat, drink, smoke, a good library, a reputation that brings every foreign visitor to his door. But he is not happy. Said he to Seabrook, as the upshot of his life's experience: "In the end it is not well...