"A soul was like a worm in an apple, my mother told me."
— Offill, Jenny (b. 1968)
Author
Work Title
Date
1999
Metaphor
"A soul was like a worm in an apple, my mother told me."
Metaphor in Context
A soul was like a worm in an apple, my mother told me. Sometimes you went your whole life without knowing you had one and then suddenly it appeared. In Africa, the soul has the same shape as the body but cannot be seen. At night, it travels through the world while a person dreams. But it returns to the body the moment a sleeping person is touched.
(p. 137)
(p. 137)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Jenny Offill, Last Things (New York: Vintage Books, 1999).
Date of Entry
11/10/2015
