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The Book: My Lobotomy by Howard Dully
ISBN: 978-0-307-38127-9
Suggested By: Sissy Vaughn
Where: Home
When:10:30-11P
Music: None
Company: The Family
Pages: 87-142 (55)
The Lead In: Squeezing reading in after drinking is a bad idea. Hooray bad ideas!
The 411 on the 55: Freeman bullies them into giving Howard a lobotomy. What’s amazing is that Howard had no idea what was going on. Basically, they checked him into a hospital and the next day he was lobotomized. Howard doesn’t remember that day at all. The trauma to the brain must have juggled the memories all up.
After the lobotomy, Howard doesn’t change all that much and neither does his step-mother. She becomes hysterical and insists that he be removed from the house. They try several solutions, but finally settle on a mental hospital, which somehow the state approves. Howard is checked in as a patient. Unbelievable.
Line of the Day: “But nothing would really fix me, Freeman said, except a lobotomy.” pg 91
Fact on the Fiction: The “ice pick lobotomy” was, according to Ole Enersen, performed by Freeman “with a recklessness bordering on lunacy, touring the country like a travelling evangelist. In most cases,” Enersen continued, “this procedure was nothing more than a gross and unwarranted mutilation carried out by a self righteous zealot.” Wikipedia
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