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A Quick Question About the Royal Beth
The Eloquent Spy
Posts: 6
7/25/2017
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So, the Royal Bethlehem is where you go when you're insane, obviously, but I was wondering why? Like, why this hotel specifically, especially since you can already be living there before losing your mind. The only instances I see the Beth being talked about is in regards to a certain ambition, and I just started wondering when my character went insane.
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Diptych
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7/25/2017
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The Manager very kindly allows those who are struggling with reality to stay there free of charge, and provides facilities to meet their particular needs. It's suggested that the Masters and/or other powers that be fund these services, for reasons of their own.
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Sir Frederick, the Libertarian Esotericist. Lord Hubris, the Bloody Baron.
Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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Siankan
Posts: 1048
7/26/2017
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On the other side of the fourth wall, the Royal Bethlehem Hotel is named for (and ostensibly originated as) the Bethlehem Royal Hospital, which cared for the mentally ill. It was so famous for raucous lunacy that it became the source of the word "bedlam."
So perhaps the real question is, why did the insane asylum get turned into a hotel?
edited by Siankan on 7/26/2017
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Prof. Sian Kan, at your service.
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Teaspoon
Posts: 866
7/26/2017
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Because madness is a rather temporary sort of affair in the Neath.
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Truth lies at the bottom of a well.
https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Alt%20Ern
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