"This subsystem still chattered; this one had fallen silent."
— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)
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Work Title
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Picador
Date
2006
Metaphor
"This subsystem still chattered; this one had fallen silent."
Metaphor in Context
Hayes produced a series of images and clipped them to his light box: Mark Schluter's brain in cross section. The young neurologist saw only structure. Weber still saw the rarest of butterflies, fluttering mind, its paired wings pinned to the film in obscene detail. Hayes traced over the surreal art. Each shade of gray spoke of function or failure. This subsystem still chattered; this one had fallen silent. "You see what we're dealing with, here." Weber just listened to the younger man step through the disaster. "Something that looks like possible discrete injury near the anterior right fusiform gyrus, as well as the anterior middle and inferior temporal gyri"
(p. 131)
(p. 131)
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
Richard Powers, The Echo Maker (New York: Picador, 2006).
Date of Entry
06/08/2015
