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     CommentAuthorMister Andersen
   • CommentTimeApr 8th 2011

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   MARK HOGANCAMP died 11 years ago tomorrow, when five men kicked his head in outside a Kingston, N.Y., bar in the early morning hours. He was reborn months later, after he awoke from a nine-day coma, his memory wiped nearly clean of the details of his life — his early marriage, girlfriends, family, Navy service, thundering alcoholism, homelessness, jail time — and he had to relearn how to eat, walk and think at age 38. Feeling shunned by the outside world, he created his own world, a tiny society called Marwencol.
2. • CommentAuthorBettyBoolean
   • CommentTimeApr 8th 2011

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   I'm having a time out until I can learn some manners.
   Thats so cool, like Henry Darger
3. • CommentAuthorSoviet Rocket No. 9
   • CommentTimeApr 8th 2011

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   That is the saddest, strangest, and most hopeful thing, that I've read in a long time.
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     CommentAuthorMister Andersen
   • CommentTimeApr 8th 2011

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   You really want to find the guy and give him a big hug.
   
   It's fascinating that having lost the ability to express himself through drawing, that talent has been rerouted into a new form.
5. • CommentAuthorKing Crabclaw
   • CommentTimeMay 16th 2011

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   There's actually a great documentary about this called Marwencol that covers a broad swath of material about him, from the incident to initial therapy to the genesis of Marwencol to its evolution and eventually acceptance as a legitimate art piece. All with interviews with tons of people and a lot of shots of the "town". It's streaming on Netflix. I definitely recommend checking it out.
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     CommentAuthormister hex
   • CommentTimeMay 18th 2011

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   @ King - I recently saw that doc and IT BLEW ME AWAY. Couldn't stop thinking about it for days. Of course, I'm a Toys R Us kid and have always loved G.I. Joe so there's that. But yes, seriously, can't reccommend this film enough. Run, don't walk to see it.
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     CommentAuthorCorey Waits
   • CommentTimeMay 18th 2011

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   I read the article and the whole thing is amazing. Possibly the most interesting thing to me (well, the whole thing is intensely interesting, but y'know) is the fact that the injuries he sustained "cured" his alcoholism.
   
   I wonder if there are scientists using him as a case study to figure out more about alcoholism and addiction in general.
   
   Going to have to track down the documentary though, the whole story is really amazing.
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     CommentAuthorkperkins
   • CommentTimeMay 18th 2011

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   Just watched it on Netflix streaming a while ago. It's great how he's rebuilt his life, power to him.