For the happy man! - Collected writings DEPRESSION: Ed Atkins
For the happy man! - Collected writings DEPRESSION: Ed Atkins For the happy man! - Collected writings DEPRESSION: Ed Atkins
incerta (lopsided), PITUITARY GLAND (HPA axis), neurohypophysis (a watched sleeper), intermediate pituitary (stricknine), adenohypophysis (A groundbreaking work of genius), Telencephalon (cerebrum) CEREBRAL HEMISPHERES [...] White matter (semen, wax – a dietary viscosity): Corona radiata (splintering light), Internal capsule (fragments of Etruscan civilisation; residual, vestigial), External capsule (a plummet), Extreme capsule (latterly a novelist and film-maker – talks with passionate erudition, disarming candour, and acerbic wit about the early influences that shaped him and led to his pioneering... etc.), Arcuate fasciculus (kneeling, cradling that ever-heavier head in your arms), Uncinate fasciculus... Subcortical Hippocampus (Medial Temporal Lobe), Amygdala (limbic system) – (limbic lobe) – (paleopallium – a sumptuously befurred promeneuse! A darkening leaf-mulch! A terrifically painful bout of! Retreating into the dark, away from an island life), Central nucleus (autonomic nervous system), Medial nucleus (accessory olfactory system, becalmed), Cortical and basomedial nuclei (main olfactory system, though currently not working), Lateral and basolateral nuclei (frontotemporal cortical system – currently imagining everything as hostile – a classic anxiety attack. A first foray after a fever into the snow: the world’s rhythm suddenly aggressive – suddenly unbearably aggressive, as if attempting to shake you off of it), base head (limbic system) (limbic lobe) (archipallium), Dentate gyrus (memories of an exile), Cornu ammonis (CA fields – “to the Duke’s health, 1899”), Claustrum (Albert Angelo), Basal ganglia, wrapped around some poor sucker; Striatum (archipallium), Dorsal striatum (again, slumped), Putamen (unfurled, but not like a flag), Caudate nucleus (camels sculpted from white limestone; the stink of your oral hygeine), Ventral striatum (A document; phoney aging), Nucleus accumbens (removed!), Olfactory tubercle (retrieved!), Globus pallidus (forms nucleus lentiformis with putamen; a chain reaction of stunning beau-
ty), Subthalamic nucleus (sincerely yours,), Substantia nigra swollen, Rhinencephalon (paleopallium – a whole animal), Olfactory bulb (once chastised for the theft of some shameful [...]), Piriform cortex (lamprey-like), Anterior olfactory nucleus (a pilgrim boy carrying a miraculously replenishing basket of food), Olfactory tract (an eloquent preacher), Anterior commissure (arching), Lateral ventricles (prolegemon), Cerebral cortex (neopallium), Frontal lobe (he healed the severed foot of a man who had cut it off as a penance for kicking his own fucking mother!), Cortex (also, preaching to the fish), Primary motor cortex (Precentral gyrus, M1), Brodmann area 4 (concerning supression), (Primary motor cortex), Prefrontal cortex (before before), Supplementary motor cortex (diagonal wish), Premotor cortex (a plague), Gyrus (Martian), Superior frontal gyrus (this and other stories concerning your fading marriage), Middle frontal gyrus (a stupendous effect), Inferior frontal gyrus (Droplets of human blood. In addition to analyzing for DNA, the droplets are round and show no splattering, indicating they impacted relatively slowly, in this case from a height of two feet. – incidentally, the coin in the picture is an old five pence piece, which is a little odd.), Brodmann areas: 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 24, 25, 32, 33, 44, 45, 46, 47, etc... – all of which concerned with simply regulating the rhythms of your wretched heart. Parietal lobe (opened the wrong fucking way), Cortex (a disaster!), Primary somatosensory cortex (S1), S2 (Two), Posterior parietal cortex (proof of identity), Gyrus (more of this), Postcentralgyrus (Primary somesthetic area) – OTHER – Precuneus (Linked to Padua, Italy), Brodmann areas 1, 2, 3 (Primary somesthetic area); 5, 7, 23, 26, 29, 31, 39, 40 (all of which concerned with the delicate sculpting of metaphor), Occipital lobe (SWIVELLING), Cortex (a smooth pan), Primary visual cortex (V1), V2 (Two), Gyrus (more of this), Lateral occipital gyrus – OTHER!... Cuneus, Brodmann areas 17 (V1, primary visual cortex), 18, 19 (two of which are obscured in the print I
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incerta (lopsided), PITUITARY GLAND (HPA axis), neurohypophysis<br />
(a watched sleeper), intermediate pituitary (stricknine),<br />
adenohypophysis (A groundbreaking work of genius),<br />
Telencephalon (cerebrum) CEREBRAL HEMISPHERES [...]<br />
White matter (semen, wax – a dietary viscosity): Corona radiata<br />
(splintering light), Internal capsule (fragments of Etruscan<br />
civilisation; residual, vestigial), External capsule (a plummet),<br />
Extreme capsule (latterly a novelist and film-maker – talks with<br />
passionate erudition, disarming candour, and acerbic wit about<br />
<strong>the</strong> early influences that shaped him and led to his pioneering...<br />
etc.), Arcuate fasciculus (kneeling, cradling that ever-heavier<br />
head in your arms), Uncinate fasciculus... Subcortical Hippocampus<br />
(Medial Temporal Lobe), Amygdala (limbic system)<br />
– (limbic lobe) – (paleopallium – a sumptuously befurred<br />
promeneuse! A darkening leaf-mulch! A terrifically painful<br />
bout of! Retreating into <strong>the</strong> dark, away from an island life),<br />
Central nucleus (autonomic nervous system), Medial nucleus<br />
(accessory olfactory system, becalmed), Cortical and basomedial<br />
nuclei (main olfactory system, though currently not working),<br />
Lateral and basolateral nuclei (frontotemporal cortical<br />
system – currently imagining everything as hostile – a classic<br />
anxiety attack. A first foray after a fever into <strong>the</strong> snow: <strong>the</strong><br />
world’s rhythm suddenly aggressive – suddenly unbearably aggressive,<br />
as if attempting to shake you off of it), base head (limbic<br />
system) (limbic lobe) (archipallium), Dentate gyrus (memories<br />
of an exile), Cornu ammonis (CA fields – “to <strong>the</strong> Duke’s<br />
health, 1899”), Claustrum (Albert Angelo), Basal ganglia,<br />
wrapped around some poor sucker; Striatum (archipallium),<br />
Dorsal striatum (again, slumped), Putamen (unfurled, but not<br />
like a flag), Caudate nucleus (camels sculpted from white limestone;<br />
<strong>the</strong> stink of your oral hygeine), Ventral striatum (A document;<br />
phoney aging), Nucleus accumbens (removed!), Olfactory<br />
tubercle (retrieved!), Globus pallidus (forms nucleus<br />
lentiformis with putamen; a chain reaction of stunning beau-
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