"Your mind resembles a roaring wind tunnel."

— Kureishi, Hanif (b. 1954)


Work Title
Date
2017
Metaphor
"Your mind resembles a roaring wind tunnel."
Metaphor in Context
"I'm a deluded old man?"

Your mind resembles a roaring wind tunnel. You told me yourself, darling. Let's have a drink and forget all this. Red or white?"
Provenance
Reading Tom Shone, "Cuck, Old," New York Times Book Review (January 26, 2018). <Link to NYTimes.com>
Citation
Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing (Faber & Faber, 2017).
Date of Entry
01/29/2018

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