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The Invisible Prison

On Watches, Dostoevsky and whether watch enthusiasts dwell in prisons

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Aug 29, 2025
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It’s a short one this week… hopefully you see that as a good thing! You may recall our boy Fyodor, and among all the things he understood or spoke about, he definitely understood prisons… both literal and metaphorical ones.

He wrote:

“The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.”

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