For the happy man! - Collected writings DEPRESSION: Ed Atkins

Or that sadly, I’m allergic to anthisan. To all antihistamines.
Or perhaps I’m merely intolerant. Though intolerance
suggests some sort of ethical failure – that my reaction is unethical.
Which is possible, I suppose, as regards some fundamental
comprehension of the circle of life, SYMBIOSIS, etc.
Isn’t there some precedent for the administering of
an analgesic by the mosquito? Doesn’t their proboscis deliver
something rather like an anaesthetic? – In amongst the cocktail
of potent natural drugs to thin the blood and prevent coagulation?
Aspirin, really.
Perhaps that’s what I’m allergic or intolerant to. Perhaps
that’s where the unethical is righted: the perversity of the
swelling in response to the mosquito’s generous administration
of anaesthetic.
Or the Superior, Middle, Inferior frontal gyrus: in reference
to the frontal lobe; Precentral and Postcentral sulcus: in
reference to the central sulcus; Trans-occipital sulcus: in reference
to the occipital lobe. There is an attempt here to get into
the world – to get out of this unreal.
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