Moving away from those imprisoned by and for enormity toward those jailed only by their own temperaments, we expect to feel a lower temperature of desperation. … But this isn’t necessarily the case. Whether they suffer from the freakishness of neurons, or a part of God’s plan, those depressed and frightened in the midst of the world are free in only some legal sense of the term.

Thomas Mallon, A Book of One's Own, loc. 754