Date: 1799
"Hitherto distress had been contemplated at a distance, and through the medium of fancy delighting to be startled by the wonderful, or transported by sublimity."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1800
One's thoughts may be visible to another
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1850
"My imagination was a tarnished mirror. It would not reflect, or only with miserable dimness, the figures with which I did my best to people it."
preview | full record— Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)
Date: 1984
"Small and far away on the mind's screen, a semblance of Deane struck a semblance of an office wall in an explosion of brains and blood,"
preview | full record— Gibson, William (b. 1948)
Date: 1992
"After a while, he no longer recognized what he was thinking and, just as a shop window sometimes prevents the onlooker from seeing the objects behind the glass and folds him instead in a narcissistic embrace, his mind ignored the flow of impressions from the outside world and locked him into a d...
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 1992
"Only this violence could break open a world constrained by the hidden cameras of conscience and vanity."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 1997
"She occupies now an entirely new angular relation to Mercy, to those refusals, among the Living, to act on behalf of Death or its ev'ryday Coercions,--Wages too low to live upon, Laws written by Owners, Infantry, Bailiffs, Prison, Death's thousand Metaphors in the World,--as if, the instant of h...
preview | full record— Pynchon, Thomas (b. 1937)
Date: 2009, trans. 2012
"Everything I saw, faces, bodies ambling through the cabin, stowing their baggage here, sitting down, stowing their baggage there, sitting down, was followed by a reflective shadow that could not desist from telling me that I was seeing this now while aware that I was seeing this, and so on ad ab...
preview | full record— Knausgaard, Karl Ove (b. 1968)