"[Thoughts] just come and go and change shape like the clouds."
— Levy, Andrea (b. 1956)
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Date
October 2, 2010
Metaphor
"[Thoughts] just come and go and change shape like the clouds."
Metaphor in Context
When I was young my mum used to complain that I spent too much time daydreaming. That was because I liked to stare at the sky. She thought that while I was dreaming I could be doing something useful as well, like knitting. Now that I am a writer, I have the privilege of daydreaming as part of my job. And I still love to gaze at the sky. The view from my workroom in my North London house has a lot of sky, and I couldn’t work without it. There are never any structured thoughts in my head when I look up. They just come and go and change shape like the clouds.
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Reading
Citation
Levy, Andrea. "North London Daydreams," New York Times. October 2, 2010. Week in Review, p. 9. <Link to NYTimes.com>
Date of Entry
10/03/2010
