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

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