On [:] Asylum | Carl Solomon, 1948

Vincent van Gogh, Corridor in the Asylum, 1889

Carl Solomon: “Who are you?”
Allen Ginsberg: “I’m Myshkin.”
Carl Solomon: “I’m Kirilov.”

Fall, 1948

Allen Ginsberg is in the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
While there, he meets another patient.

Jim Jones, Carl Solomon, Report from the Asylum: Afterthoughts of a Shock Patient, 2003

Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin is the idiot in Dostoyevsky’s ‘The Idiot”
Alexei Nilych Kirillov is one of the characters in Dostoyevsky’s ‘The Possessed.”