Administration Building at McLean Hospital
— Photo by John Phelan
“A fresh fall of snow blanketed the asylum grounds — not a Christmas sprinkle, but a man-high January deluge, the sort that snuffs out schools and offices and churches, and leaves, for a day or more, a pure, blank sheet in place of memo pads, date books and calendars.’’
From autobiographical novel The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath (1932-1963). She was depressed most of her life and killed herself. The “asylum’’ she refers to is probably McLean Hospital, in Belmont, Mass.
