"My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery--always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud."
— Woolf, Virgina (1882-1941)
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Date
December 28, 1932
Metaphor
"My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery--always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud."
Metaphor in Context
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery--always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?
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Provenance
Reading: discovered under the rubric "The Mind" in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, Ed. Robert Andrews (New York: Columbia UP, 1993).
Citation
The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935.
Ed. Nigel Nicolson, Joanne Trautmann Banks. vol. 5. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979. p. 140.
Date of Entry
05/20/2009
