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Re: [Pen-l] Wildman Larry Fischer

Michael Perelman wrote:
> Again, I don't recall him singing.  He would just make interesting rhythms
> by making fart sounds with his armpits, slapping himself, & strange sounds
> with his voice.  He called himself the human juke box.  I never saw the
> manic depressive paranoid schizophrenic pictured in the documentary.
> Judging be the timeline in the film, he must have recently escaped from the
> mental institution when I knew him.

which "mental institution"? Cal State?

He may have been autistic, with savant talents.
-- 
Jim Devine /  "Nobody told me there'd be days like these / Strange
days indeed -- most peculiar, mama." -- JL.
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