Date: 1892
"The thought beneath so slight a film / Is more distinctly seen,-- / As laces just reveal the surge, / Or mists the Apennine."
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Date: 2004
"Those final sounds, however, are nothing like the wind moving through the vacancy of a mind."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)
Date: 2011
"When he opened the door the man spoke in a low voice, and it was for Lamb as though his head was filling up with snow, his thinking brain temporarily blanked out, eclipsed by the sudden flash of danger."
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Date: February 21, 2019
"A few years ago, when it suddenly occurred to us that the internet was a place we could never leave, I began to keep a diary of what it felt like to be there in the days of its snowy white disintegration, which felt also like the disintegration of my own mind."
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