"But my mother told me that just the opposite was true. That the pictures in your mind were always more beautiful than what was in the world."
— Offill, Jenny (b. 1968)
Author
Work Title
Date
1999
Metaphor
"But my mother told me that just the opposite was true. That the pictures in your mind were always more beautiful than what was in the world."
Metaphor in Context
I thought the flowers the blind girl imagined must be uglier than the ones I saw, the way you could think of something with wings and see a bat, not a bird. But my mother told me that just the opposite was true. That the pictures in your mind were always more beautiful than what was in the world. Ask Edgar if you don’t believe me, she said.
(p. 62)
(p. 62)
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
Jenny Offill, Last Things (New York: Vintage Books, 1999).
Date of Entry
11/10/2015
