Date: 1814, 1816, 1896
"Thoughts, like Churl's corn, in chamber'd stores entomb'd, / Devour'd by vermin, or, decay, consum'd; / Whose fruits might food, or opulence, afford; / Enrich the Rich, or bless the poor Man's board."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1887
"It is a mistake to think that that little room [the 'brain-attic'] has elastic walls and can distend to any extent"
preview | full record— Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859-1930)
Date: February 20, 2000
"I sometimes fancy that various archetypal situations circled tirelessly in Hitchcock's mind, like whales in a tank at the zoo."
preview | full record— Ebert, Roger (1942-2013)
Date: 2001
"The mind is like a well-endowed museum, only a small fraction of its holdings on view at any one time, and this is true from hour to hour as well as from era to era."
preview | full record— Richardson, James (b. 1950)
Date: December 30, 2015
"All those rooms were gathered in my own brain, which looked exactly like Hasanaj’s, a wet, gleaming, walnutlike lump, composed of 100 billion brain cells so tiny and so myriad they could only be compared to the stars of a galaxy."
preview | full record— Knausgaard, Karl Ove (b. 1968)
Date: June 30, 2017
"Or consider living with an unending library of easily recalled memories. It would be overwhelming: Dates, names, phone numbers -- they would all be constantly top of mind."
preview | full record— Boser, Ulrich
Date: October 23, 2017
"Evans said that, after the incident, 'I just put it in a part of my brain and closed the door.'"
preview | full record— Farrow, Ronan (b. 1987)
Date: October 10, 2017
"The words are arbitrary but the thoughts are not. Their meaning is laid up in the vaults of the mind."
preview | full record— Ground, Ian