Tag Archives: lobotomy
I’d Rather Have a Bottle in Front of Me
I like word play. Spoonerisms, for example: The announcer at the piano concert said, “Mr. Playbody will now pee for us,” instead of “Mr. Peabody will now play for us.” I remember the following from high school: “I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy.” I had a […]
Brain Slice
I’m reading a really interesting new book. I tweeted a review of it from the Washington Post (see @bruddajack, August 26) and bought it yesterday. It reads like a hot knife through butter. The name of the book is Patient H.M. by Luke Dittrich. H.M. suffered from epileptic seizures after an accident in childhood. About […]
Such Promise
It was 1949. My parents’ first child, my older brother Michael, was born. I am my family’s archivist, so I still have the baby album my parents started. It begins hopefully enough. Black and white pictures, probably taken with Dad’s Hawkeye camera. After half a dozen pages of Mike in his crib and in his […]
