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

motor cortex (a plague), Gyrus (‘Dante’s View’ or some kind of
gigantic thrust vaults), Superior frontal gyrus (this and other
stories concerning your fading marriage), Middle frontal gyrus
(lost at a Ranch Market, Hollywood, 1956), 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 (which
will sear the unlucky volumes shelved on either side of it), 8
(for the pronouncing of Latinate, glottal stuff), 9 (hot coffee),
10 (April: that is the fool month, isn’t it?), 11 (Iceberg Lake),
12 (an elevator being a small and intimate enclosure, yet the
people who ride it are often anything but intimate. In this impersonal
record of an elevator ride the operator, looking rather
forlorn, seems not so much human as A PART OF THE MA-
CHINERY.), 24 (bisecting of a carniverous flower), 25 (a plateau
of dried grasses – thousands of different genuses, swaying
in unison with the wind, shaded in great damp patches by the
clouds), 32 (codependency as pathology.), 33 (Antarctic ice cap,
a volcanic plug; the ‘throne’; wax figure in wooden structure),
44 (preparing to experience the figure on masonite panel), 45
(NOVATION), 46 (Aruba!), 47 (behind another barbed-wire
fence, no longer serving its purpose, the parched Dust Bowl
stretches beyond empty buildings to the horizon), etc... – all of
which concerned with simply regulating the rhythms of your
wretched heart. Parietal lobe (opened the wrong fucking way),