"I have taken two bottles of sleeping pills with a jug of Gatorade in the bathroom of the engineering building of the U of M. My body became unbearably hot, moistened by heaps of sweat, I wanted to vomit; but, since I hadn't eaten in days, nothing came up except this bitter tasting rot, mucus-like in texture." Shortly before his sixteenth birthday, young writer Basil Pierce Dawson, drifting from city to city, overdoses on drugs and is admitted to the psychiatric unit at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. "Fantasie Maniaco-Melancolique: Volume I: The Plant and Virus...
"I have taken two bottles of sleeping pills with a jug of Gatorade in the bathroom of the engineering building of the U of M. My body became unbearabl...