Richard Brautigan

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Works

39

Cited by

142

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5 total works indexed

1. The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data

   · 1977 · cited 61,783x

2. The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

   · 2009 · cited 58,224x

3. Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform

   · 2009 · cited 46,838x

4. ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database

   · 2009 · cited 46,286x

5. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 41,720x

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Quotes

• “A friend came over to the house a few days ago and read one of my poems. He came back today and asked to read the same poem over again. After he finished reading it, he said, "It makes me want to write poetry."”
• “I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of loving grace.”
• “if a girl likes me a lot and starts getting real nervous and suddenly begins asking me funny questions and looks sad if I give the wrong answers and she says things like, "Do you think it's going to rain?" and I say, "It beats me," and she says, "Oh," and looks a little sad at the clear blue California sky, I think: Thank God, it's you, baby, this time  Instead of me.”
• “Forsaken, fucking in the cold, eating each other, lost runny noses, complaining all the time like so many people that we know”
• “Thinking hard about you I got on the bus and paid 30 cents car fare and asked the driver for two transfers before discovering that I wasalone.”
• “Everybody wants to go to bed with everybody else, they're lined up for blocks, so I'll go to bed with you. They won't miss us.”

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Key facts

Born

Richard Gary Brautigan , ( 1935-01-30 ) January 30, 1935, Tacoma, Washington , U.S.

Died

c. September 16, 1984 (1984-09-16) (aged 49) , Bolinas, California , U.S.

Occupation

Novelist poet short story writer

Genre

Magic realism Gothic Western fabulation black comedy satire psychological fiction

Literary movement

Postmodernism

Notable works

Trout Fishing in America (1967) In Watermelon Sugar (1968) The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 (1971)

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