My Stepfather’s Wild Incurvation

11 Jun

While doing my monthly ego search (go ahead and make your frequency jokes) I stumbled across the following link:

Download free HEAD CASE: How I Almost Lost My Mind Trying To Understand My Brain

Having never heard of the reputable-sounding 4ebooks.org (my bad) I clicked through and found this delightful marriage of attempted digital piracy and spam gibberish:

Dennis Cass, “Head Case: How I Almost Lost My Mind Trying to Understand My Brain”
HarperCollins | 2007-03-01 | ISBN: 0060594721 | 224 pages | PDF | 1,5 MB

Infiltrating the concern of neuroscience, Dennis Cass offers up his possess mentality to “research,” subjecting his nous and embody to automobile shocks, mind-numbing tending experiments, cigarettes, pronounce tests of his possess devising, and the comedy of Bill Maher. Like a slightly off-kilter martyr Plimpton, Cass, in his adventurous exploits, reveals the intricacies of fear, attention, stress, reward, and knowingness from the exclusive out. Along the way, he weaves in the news of his stepfather’s wild incurvation and take addiction, in constituent to his possess problems–which are many. Cass attacks the person of the manlike mentality with humorist and candor, motion favourite power into something distinctly human. Head Case is an clamant feature for anyone who has ever wondered, “Why am I who I am?”

I’m trying to imagine the person who has the technical savvy to sell stolen encrypted computer files, but is unable rip off the sales copy from the HarperCollins website.

Do they have some kind of Soviet-era laptop whose cut-and-paste function introduces error?

Was it dictated by a crack addict . . . to an opium addict?

Or am I just jealous about not having the chops to describe my own work as a “clamant feature?”

6 Responses to “My Stepfather’s Wild Incurvation”

  1. Lars June 11, 2009 at 4:19 pm #

    I would definitely go see a band called Martyr Plimpton. Especially if they were opening for Manlike Mentality.

  2. Dennis Lang June 11, 2009 at 5:12 pm #

    Well, I see your point, “clamant” is kind of a cool word.

  3. Emily Stevens June 11, 2009 at 10:56 pm #

    Motion favourite power into something distinctly human!

    Please do!

  4. Lee June 12, 2009 at 7:28 am #

    That’s a work of art.

  5. Sara Aase June 12, 2009 at 11:28 am #

    Tears from laughing. Thank you.

  6. Dennis Lang June 12, 2009 at 12:01 pm #

    On a second reading, vaguely remindful of my unfortunate, short-lived experience with “Finnegan’s Wake”. Equally meaningful.

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