More on Stephen King’s The Institute
Another excerpt from the midpoint of the novel:
“This was no dream, it was really happening, and to get out of here no longer seemed enough.”
The novel has to do with institutional torture of a pre-adolescent boy. James Joyce wrote in his famous novel Ulysses that “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” After World War I, Joyce, like W.B. Yeats, seemed to anticipate that there was worse to come. Ireland was largely outside of continental politics, and outsiders sometimes have a better perspective on things.