You've a good memory for shows. I wonder if I still went to rock shows whether I would. It seemed like I used to, but everything's different now. After the psychosurgery, I was different, no doubt. At first, I began to be obsessed, when traveling on buses and subways, with observing whatever any female near me was reading. I found myself surreptitiously reading popular novels, love poetry, and diatribes over the perfumed shoulders of countless commuter girls. I couldn't sleep at night. [15:05] Asheresque: what kind of surgery? was this a full frontal, or what? [15:05] trip80: amygdala [15:08] trip80: parts of the limbic [15:09] trip80: hippocampus The public library became a kind of second home to me. [15:10]Asheresque: I am intrigued Well, after you found my notebook, I felt I had to explain to you all the diagrams, the chemical formulae, all that weird stuff. It's not everyone who's got a howto on bomb-making next to sketches of suburban moms returning Matilda to the children's desk. But I'm no terroristThis is not my story. [15:15] trip80: I'm just an observer [15:15] trip80: an amplifier [15:15] trip80: a machine [15:16] trip80: I appreciate you calling me [15:16] trip80: The notebook isn't much, it's a trifle, really [15:16] trip80: I've got a whole room full of them [15:17] trip80: Just had to know what women were thinking -- what was that internal voice saying [15:18] trip80: when she sits in the seat next to me, thumbing Jurassic Park, giving me a brief, awkward grin, and I grunt back [15:18] trip80: I'm not a big reader myself [15:18] trip80: or at least I wasn't [15:18] trip80: Always found it hard to read [15:19] trip80: like memorizing [15:19] trip80: Had to know exactly what something meant --