"Her mind was as full of religion as a night sky is full of things visible and invisible. She left the man and took his religion and became a nun in the course of time."
— Spark, Muriel (1918-2006)
Author
Work Title
Publisher
J. B. Lippincott
Date
1962
Metaphor
"Her mind was as full of religion as a night sky is full of things visible and invisible. She left the man and took his religion and became a nun in the course of time."
Metaphor in Context
The family had returned and their meetings were dangerous and exciting. The more she discovered him to be still in love with Jean Brodie, the more she was curious about the mind that loved the woman. By the end of the year it happened that she had quite lost interest in the man himself, but was deeply absorbed in his mind, from which she extracted, among other things, his religion as a pith from a husk. Her mind was as full of religion as a night sky is full of things visible and invisible. She left the man and took his religion and became a nun in the course of time.
(p. 132)
(p. 132)
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Citation
Spark, Muriel. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. New York: Perennial Classics, 1999.
Date of Entry
06/16/2009
