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Hey, guys, I need a favor. Somebody give me a symbolic name for a prison. Since you're all literary nerds, this should be trivial for you, right?

Picture unrelated.

>> No.888761

Do Not Pass Go...

>> No.888769

How do you mean symbolic? What are you going for here? What should it reference?

>> No.888785

jail

>> No.888777

Alcatraz
It represent a prison that is very difficult to escape from.

>> No.888789

You virginal frustrations, from which you will never, ever escape.

>> No.888792

gunfuck

>> No.888794
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888794

Call it the analbumpuncture detention centre.

I symbolized anal rape

>> No.888799

>>888769

Just a name for a place where a lot of people are held captive.

>> No.888806

>>888777
Interestingly enough, there is one man who successfully "escaped" from Alcatraz (as in reached another landmass): John K. Giles. He stole an Army uniform from the laundry room and snuck onto an Army laundry tug, which then landed at Angel Island, where he was caught and returned. (The people you may be thinking of as escaping, the ones who the Clint Eastwood movie is based on, almost certainly died).

John K. Giles was an interesting guy, and I've often felt that a thread on him would be interesting. He was an extremely intelligent man, who first began a life of crime because he needed money to buy textbooks for his engineering courses at UC Berkeley. He was finally done up for killing a cop in a failed robbery (although, in actual fact, he probably didn't kill her). He was also a published author of Westerns, and a student of philosophy (he was a devotee of Schopenhauer, in particular), who received several patents while in prison. Also a very well-regarded gardener on Alcatraz, and a homosexual.

>> No.888814

Alcatraz, Gulag, Pandora, Camp 22.

>> No.888815

>>888806
sorry I don't know why I posted this

>> No.888816

>>888799

North Korea

>> No.888833

Gehenna

Nastrond

The Pit

Auschwitz

The Kremlin

Nod

>> No.888847

Oh, yeah.

TARTARUS.

>> No.888886

>>888847
lol not him and I actually think it would be cool... but don't think people would take it seriously

>> No.888938

Château d'If

>> No.888963

Yeah symbolic? idk...Sheoul, Gaol (a cool spelling of jail), in the belly of the great fish, The Pit, Purgatory, The Stripey Hole, uhm I don't know if these are symbolic...

>> No.888978

Tantalus V

>> No.888980

>>888963
The Great Anus of Humanity

>> No.889019

Babylon.

It's where the Jews were enslaved for however many fucking years, definitely a good symbolic name for a prison.
Or just call it the Bastille.

>> No.889045

Elba.

>> No.889082

Jailtown.

>> No.889114

Did anyone say Superjail yet?

>> No.889209

>>888744
OP, buy a thesaurus. it's a much better source than anyone on 4chan.

>> No.889229

How the fuck has Panopticon not been mentioned yet?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon

>> No.889235

superduper jail

>> No.889267

Eden

>> No.890071
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890071

Earth.

>> No.890102

North Korea

>> No.890111

Denmark.

After all, doesn't Hamlet say "Denmark's a prison"?

>> No.890136

Cage
Zoo
Inferno
March
Hole
Well
Asylum
Kansas
Eternity
Rockland
Straitjacket
Madhouse
Pilgrimage
Void
Long Island
Tomb
Coma
Airplane
Hospital
Walls
Sea
Cottage


That's all I got.

>> No.890134

cage, pit, void, limbo, things of that ilk, obvious but classic

>> No.890140
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890140

Just call it Attica.

>> No.890144

... Life ...

*SO FUCKING DEEP!!!1!*

>> No.890147

>>890136

>Long Island

This was done in real life already.

I know this, because I live there.

/loldeep

>> No.890149

Siberia
Pipe
Antarctica
Australia
Kafka
Island

>> No.890152
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890152

Nova Prospect :)
hey you pick up that can

>> No.890174

Festung
Castle
Stalingrad

>> No.890254

"Catch 22"

>> No.890257

Zeitgeist.

>> No.890258

capitalism

>> No.890266

the gap

symbolic for the prison that capitalism is

>> No.890270

Flesh.

DEEP.

>> No.890294

worth-leaven

>> No.890297

High School

>> No.890300

Marriage

>> No.890417
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890417

Butcher Bay?

nah. it's been done.

>> No.891389

Castle Wolfenstein
Mars
Carnate Island

sorry, got my gaming to speak for myself

I dunno but i would call it The Garden

>> No.891403

azkaban

>> No.891633

>>891403
oh, no you didnt

>> No.891690

>>890300
best answer itt

>> No.891698

Call it um....Abu Graven

>> No.891709

Existence

>> No.891717

>>888963
>Gaol (a cool spelling of jail)
It's just the British spelling...

>> No.891742

Chateau d'If
Leethe
Sharaska

>> No.893468
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893468

Botany Bay?

BOTANY BAY?????

>> No.893481

Goa'uld

>> No.893495

The Ol' Toybox

Y'know because their put away and forgotten?

>> No.893499

>>893495
Fuck what I jsut said

how about

The Attic

these are names the prisoners would call it though

>> No.893536

Symbolic of what, OP? Just prisons? Because you're not going to get much that's not just the name of another prison.

>> No.893865

Puzzle?

>> No.893878

I watch the discovery shows where they go in jail and talk to prisoners, they usually call it the
BIG HOUSE