"'Ayahuasca takes you to the swampland of your soul,' my friend Tony, a photographer in his late fifties, told me."

— Levy, Ariel (b. 1974)


Date
September 12, 2016
Metaphor
"'Ayahuasca takes you to the swampland of your soul,' my friend Tony, a photographer in his late fifties, told me."
Metaphor in Context
Ayahuasca, like kale, is no joy ride. The majority of users vomit--or, as they prefer to say, "purge." And that's the easy part. "Ayahuasca takes you to the swampland of your soul," my friend Tony, a photographer in his late fifties, told me. Then he said that he wanted to do it again.
(p. 31)
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Ariel Levy, "The Secret Life of Plants" The New Yorker (September 12, 2016). Print.

Text from online article, titled "The Drug of Choice for the Age of Kale" (September 5, 2016). <Link to newyorker.com>
Date of Entry
09/15/2016

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.