"A fuse blew and I had gone out of my skull."

— Shepherd, Jean; Bob Clark, Leigh Brown


Work Title
Date
1966
Metaphor
"A fuse blew and I had gone out of my skull."
Metaphor in Context
Listen, jerk. When I tell you to come, you better come!

What? Are you going to cry now? Come on, cry baby, cry for me. Come on.

Cry!

[Voiceover]

Deep in the recesses of my brain... a tiny red-hot little flame began to grow.

Something had happened.

A fuse blew and I had gone out of my skull.
Categories
Provenance
Watching
Citation
Jean Shepherd, Bob Clark, Leigh Brown, A Christmas Story (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1983).
Date of Entry
12/24/2017

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