old s.f. story about people who let their brains run free, and kept their bodies in a shed?

http://www.gpdesenhos.com.br/imagens/dccomics/monsieurmallah2.jpg

Monsieur Mallah and The Brain! It was especially good when they were in Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol, reimagined as (somewhat thwarted) lovers.

the body-insane bradbury i remember is the one where this guy gets his skeleton removed surgically

it ends with him lying in an immobile puddle staring at the ceiling, blissfully happy

I've never read 'The Red Brain'. I think I might have read a very brief send-up of it Robert Sheckley's 'Zirn Left Unguarded the Jenghik Palace in Flame Jon Westerley Dead', which runs something like "The fate of the universe depended on the red brain — but the red brain was insane! Aha! Ahaha!"

no you read no send-up

"zirn left unguarded" is also awesome but it is a different story

(actually in a VERY TRUE AND REAL sense it is the same story)

hurrah

Robert Sheckley

semi-obscure pulp authors i wish to post quotes from

Perhaps tonight the question raised on this thread will finally be answered.

i have now realised that 'the red brain' and 'jirn left unguarded etc etc' are both in this anthology, perhaps even adjacent in it:

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/t0/t10.jpg

and somehow i'd lumped them into one story. hm.

man the frank belknap long story i was going to quote from on that thread was INTENSE

this is gonna be good, people!!

well i still have no idea what the story is that i was thinkin of

it's not vonnegut, is it?

actually i think it's next to vonnegut in an anthology i have � harvey jacobs?

here is a lovely drawing by mervyn peake:

http://www.noosfere.org/showcase/IMAGES/nw_6904.jpg

sadly, it is illustrating 'a boy and his dog'.

mark wanted to talk about "a boy and his dog" earlier in the series but i think he never did

no wait again — it is vonnegut! 'unready to wear'

Cool picture. Probably best to steer clear of that story- the notoriously litigious author might have shut your podcast down.

YES it is unready to wear! thank you thomp!!