Novelist Richard Brautigan’s Brains At Bancroft Library: A Grand Guignol Adventure!
“I know you know that Brautigan blew his brains out, literally blew his mind,” she wrote to poet, novelist and essayist Andrei Codrescu at Exquisite Corpse. “What you might not be aware of is that he blew his brains out all over pages of his last manuscript… I handled them, archived them, ran my hands over his desiccated brain matter on numerous occasions, though at first I had no idea what I was touching because the Library said nothing and even denied what became all too apparent after I eliminated the other possibilities of what this strange stuff could be (I’m not unfamiliar with such things, and my eyes didn’t deceive me).
[Thanks Stephen!]
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