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Donovan's Brain
1953 · Film · 83 min
Directed by Felix E. Feist
A scientist takes the brain of dead man and revives it via electrodes as it lays suspended in a tank of liquid. Soon, the brain grows to possess enormous psychic powers and inflicts its personality upon the doctor who saved it, creating a "Jekyll and Hyde" paradigm.
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I do intense reading projects that don't quite make my eyes bleed but that sometimes destabilize my psyche, forcing me to take a break.
Lately I have been reading about "love" (novels, memoirs, psychoanalysis, psychology, philosophy, literature reviews, feminist and other sociology, ...) and I also hurt my leg so I am doing less exercise, less hacking on the computer, etc. At some point my brain was overloading on that kind of content but still felt like reading (if I watched TV or movies I would see them through that lens) so I started slumming on old sci-fi like "Donovan's Brain" (about somebody who never loved anybody at all) and that put me straight.
Straight enough that I have a bunch of call numbers written down and am about to raid the library again.
For me serious reading campaigns revolve around getting a book and then looking up some fraction of references in that book, then looking up references from that book and so on. I am probably at the half shelf mark at this point.