I had arranged to meet Alison Farrar, Broadmoor's head librarian, at the hospital library.
It is now owned by the Bnai Zion Foundation, which raises funds for hospital, library and other building projects in Israel.
Bored, she began reading the romance novels that came to her room via a hospital library cart.
The various facilities include a gym, canteen, hospital, library and playground, which Wang claims are under-resourced or rundown.
"Past what?" he countered, but she said, "Oh, please," and after that he found himself silently reading some book from the hospital library.
Rather than being crammed into tenements, Salt's workers were housed in terraced cottages with gardens, close to church, school, hospital, library and gym.
She also devoted herself to the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Women and Children in Orlando, Fla., and to their hometown Latrobe, Pa., hospital, library and St . Vincents College.
Other illustrious alumni (to name only the writers) include Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, who, before being admitted herself, taught a Tuesday night poetry seminar in the hospital library.
At the time, he remembers being fascinated by depictions of fictional serial killers – astonishingly, he was able to borrow a copy of Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho from the hospital library.
At the centre of this controversy is the Kalasha Dur – a museum, small hospital, library, hostel and school complex for the Kalash (which Muslims cannot attend), housed within an absurdly Greek-looking palace built by the NGO Greek Volunteers, with help from Greece's government body Hellenic Aid.
