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

have – the other seemingly a king of neural machete – hacking
out a path. Rusted, no doubt), Temporal lobe (Famous, The),
Cortex (derogatory, if you ask me), Primary auditory cortex
(A1), A2 (Two), Inferior temporal cortex (an attempt – unsuccessful
– to seduce X. Clumsy, in retrospect), Posterior inferior
temporal cortex (certain rules concerning dissection. Or vivisection),
Gyrus (simply), Superior temporal gyrus (accusations!
Accusations!), Middle temporal gyrus (some would say
this were a too-late suppression of the truth), Inferior temporal
gyrus (controversy, certainly), Fusiform gyrus (provocation –
fingered), Parahippocampal gyrus (the story of voodoo), Brodmann
areas: 9, 20, 21, 22, 27, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 41, 42 – all of
which concerned with governing the musculature of those various
sphincters dotted at strategic points about the body), Insular
cortex (Scenes of sexual abandon suggest lust as the cause
of humanity’s downfall), Cingulate cortex (resplendent in
shocking pink!), Subgenual area 25 (the garden), Anterior cingulate
(Malade au Coeur), Posterior cingulate (Amici del Cuore),
Retrosplenial cortex (resplendent in sacking, for fuck’s
sake!), Indusium griseum (Born in Berlin, of all places), Brodmann
areas 23, 24 (a necessarry retardation); 26, 29, 30 (retrosplenial
areas to augment reality); 31, 32 (a counter movement).
Neural pathways (that machete): arcuate fasciculus (the
sound of thunder...), cerebral peduncle (now distant wing
beats), corpus callosum (prattling), pyramidal or corticospinal
tract (Or a Bremen Physician, sixteenth century), Major dopamine
pathways (Wine made from mandrake), dopamine system
(pining for the loss and consequence of Ultima Online),
mesocortical pathway (sleep is death), mesolimbic pathway
(deadly nightshade), nigrostriatal pathway (certain uses), tuberoinfundibular
pathway (an action RPG that’s perfectly tailored
for the pick-up-and-play crowd: in other words, it’s a
likeable confection that’s as witty as it is insubstantial), Serotonin
Pathways serotonin system (X failed to find a wide audi-