"He is a person filled to the brim with himself."
— Knausgaard, Karl Ove (b. 1968)
Work Title
Date
May 25, 2015
Metaphor
"He is a person filled to the brim with himself."
Metaphor in Context
Breivik's concern for the tiny cut on his finger, which occurs just minutes after he has taken the last of seventy-seven lives, and the remarkable insensitivity to which this testifies, could perhaps be attributed to the fact that he was high on stimulants, as well as intoxicated by the murders themselves, and so had been placed in a state of unreality--were it not for the fact that, years later, there is no sign that he has changed.
He is a person filled to the brim with himself. And that is perhaps the most painful thing of all, the realization that this whole gruesome massacre, all those extinguished lives, was the result of a frustrated young man's need for self-representation.
(p. 30)
He is a person filled to the brim with himself. And that is perhaps the most painful thing of all, the realization that this whole gruesome massacre, all those extinguished lives, was the result of a frustrated young man's need for self-representation.
(p. 30)
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
Karl Ove Knausgaard, "The Inexplicable," The New Yorker (May 25, 2015): 28-32. <Link to www.newyorker.com>
Date of Entry
06/09/2015
