"In the red glare of the digital clock, my brain rattled its cage."

— Kennedy, Pagan (b. 1963)


Date
September 18, 2016
Metaphor
"In the red glare of the digital clock, my brain rattled its cage."
Metaphor in Context
One night, I was in the Qs, trying to figure out what to add to quesadillas, queer theory and Questlove. Then, suddenly, the game infuriated me -- why, why, why did I have to spend hours doing this? In the red glare of the digital clock, my brain rattled its cage. I prepared for a wave of lunacy.
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Pagan Kennedy, "The Insomnia Machine," The New York Times (September 18, 2016). <Link to nytimes.com>
Date of Entry
10/12/2016

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