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

Or the clumsy, ‘Elegance, verve and style!’ – Being
symptoms that correspond to the functions controlled by the
area of the brain that is damaged by the bleed. Other symptoms
include those that indicate a rise in intracranial pressure
due to a large mass putting pressure on the brain. Intracerebral
haemorrhages are often misdiagnosed as subarachnoid haemorrhages
due to the similarity in symptoms and signs. A severe
headache followed by vomiting is one of the more common
symptoms of intracerebral haemorrhage. Some patients may
also go into a coma before the bleed is noticed.
Or the risk of death from an intraparenchymal bleed
in traumatic brain injury is especially high when the injury occurs
in the brain stem... Orange peel used to rehydrate some
ancient, prehistoric tobacco.
Or we return, back to them plumes of black smoke.
Reading THEM.
A hushed, economic language. A never ending longhand
– the pen dragged about, never lifting off the paper. A
retarded, BRUTISH hand, of course – as evidenced elsewhere
as the disappearing actor of the disaster. No caps – a treacly
runnel of lowercase ink, kerned to within an inch of its life.
Monosyllabic words drawn out over pages and pages.
Two hundred words for ‘sorrow’, listed alphabetically.
No full-stops, just ellipses.
The longhand of death, really.
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