Bibliograph

My brain on fire, Paris and other obsessions, Leonard Pitt

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My brain on fire, Paris and other obsessions, Leonard Pitt

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

My brain on fire

Oclc number

913304853

Responsibility statement

Leonard Pitt

Sub title

Paris and other obsessions

Summary

This is Leonard Pitt's story of growing up the misfit in Detroit in the 1940s and 50s. In a later age he would have been put on Ritalin and paraded before psychiatrists because he couldn't pay attention in school. In 1962, at the end of a misguided foray towards a career in advertising he took the ultimate cure, a trip to Paris. He thought it would only be a visit. He stayed seven years. There in the City of Light, Leonard's mind exploded. And it hasn't stopped since

Table Of Contents

Early misery, later salvation -- Breaking away -- Paris at last -- Louis's high heels -- Pursuing the dance -- The fabulous garden of the Palais-Royal -- The english lesson -- Richard's turtle -- Thrown out of the café -- The spectacular rise and ignominious fall of Napoleon III -- My dinner wish Simson -- Oceans of black ink -- My fifteen minutes of fame -- Life after Paris -- Seeing the patterns -- Chasing that thought -- Eco-rap -- Writing Paris -- Paris and the future, uh-oh! -- The key to a brilliant Paris future -- The origins of the aesthetic of modern architecture -- Dissociation in architecture -- Back to school for me -- A family portrait -- Surprised by love -- The one thing missing from our beautiful life -- How can I forget, chocolate -- And in the end

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