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the role of the artist is to ask questions not answer them NAME_1 so here are the questions is suffering simply a creation of the mind or does the physical material world around you in your personal circumstances do those play a role in suffering and perhaps more importantly must one have experienced suffering firsthand in order to help those around us who suffer welcome back to searching the archives today we're going to be reviewing ward number six a short story by NAME_1 so the plot of this story goes something like this a reserved and intelligent physician a man by the name of NAME_2 is assigned to lead the mental asylum in a small provincial town in russia NAME_3 doubles in philosophy he's well read he's developing views on life the human condition suffering what it all means uh but everything he's dabbling in is experienced second hand through books and the writings of others NAME_3 really longs for deep intellectual conversation with someone else in real life but he kind of feels that everyone in this small town is really intellectually beneath him and he becomes more and more alienated and to himself throughout the course of this book that is of course until he meets a very interesting patient a man by the name of NAME_4 so after a fall from relative nobility NAME_4 has wound up being interned in this mental asylum and he knows pain and suffering firsthand um and he basically directly challenges a