My Brain On Fire: Paris And Other Obsessions

Synopsis

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. 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. Leonard Pitt.