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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.
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My Brain on Fire: Paris and Other Obsessions
2016, Counterpoint Press
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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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