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Shklovsky was active in a socialist-revolutionary uprising ... Finally the attempt took place, and failed. Shklovsky had to go into hiding. "I knew a doctor. He arranged a place at a mental hospital for me. He warned me: don't pretend anything, behave the way you always do. That's quite enough...."--Alexandra Berlina, "Make it strange, make it stony: Viktor Shlovsky and the horror behind ostranenie," The Times Literary Supplement (March 11, 2016), p. 14