"'Galaxy brain', until something starry exploded."

— Lockwood, Patricia


Date
February 21, 2019
Metaphor
"'Galaxy brain', until something starry exploded."
Metaphor in Context
That the shorthand we developed to describe something could slowly, brightly, wiggle into an example of what it described: brain worms, until the whole phenomenon contracted to a single grey inch. Galaxy brain, until something starry exploded.
(p. 14)
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Patrica Lockwood, "The Communal Mind," London Review of Books 41:4 (February 21, 2019): 11-14. <Link to www.lrb.co.uk>
Date of Entry
02/22/2019

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