"The human head is bigger than the globe."
— Grass, Günther (b. 1927)
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Work Title
Date
June 16, 1978
Metaphor
"The human head is bigger than the globe."
Metaphor in Context
The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desire point outside the gravitational pull of earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.
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Provenance
Looking under the rubric "The Mind" in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations. Ed. Robert Andrews. New York: Columbia UP, 1993.
Citation
Reprinted in On Writing and Politics, 1967-1983, 1984. Trans. 1985.
Date of Entry
05/20/2009
