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Lobotomies have been featured in several literary and cinematic presentations that both reflected society's attitude towards the procedure and, at times, changed it.

The 1946 novel All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren described a lobotomy, saying it " would have made a Comanche brave look like a tyro with a scalping knife.

" The surgeon is portrayed as a repressed man who couldn't change others with love but instead resorted to " high-grade carpentry work.

" In Tennessee Williams's 1958 play, Suddenly, Last Summer, the protagonist is threatened with a lobotomy to stop her from telling the truth about her cousin Sebastian.

The surgeon says, " I can't guarantee that a lobotomy would stop her babbling.

" Her aunt responds, " That may be, maybe not, but after the operation who would believe her, Doctor?