My brain on fire
Subtitle: Paris and other obsessions
By: Leonard Pitt
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9781593766344
Subjects: American Authors; Biography; Description and travel
Description: 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: title: Early misery, later salvation; title: Breaking away; title: Paris at last; title: Louis's high heels; title: Pursuing the dance; title: The fabulous garden of the Palais-Royal; title: The english lesson; title: Richard's turtle; title: Thrown out of the café; title: The spectacular rise and ignominious fall of Napoleon III; title: My dinner wish Simson; title: Oceans of black ink; title: My fifteen minutes of fame; title: Life after Paris; title: Seeing the patterns; title: Chasing that thought; title: Eco-rap; title: Writing Paris; title: Paris and the future, uh-oh!; title: The key to a brilliant Paris future; title: The origins of the aesthetic of modern architecture; title: Dissociation in architecture; title: Back to school for me; title: A family portrait; title: Surprised by love; title: The one thing missing from our beautiful life; title: How can I forget, chocolate; title: And in the end.