Date: 1965
"The younger machines occupy miles of dark benches, / Enjoying self-induced vacations of the mind, / Eating textbook rinds, spitting culture seeds, / Dreaming an exotic name to give their latest defeat, / Computing the hours on computer minds."
preview | full record— Kaufman, Bob (1925-1986)
Date: 1965
"The ripe brain rotting like a yellow nut / Hatching / Its babel of sea-lice, sandfly, and maggot."
preview | full record— Walcott, Derek (b. 1930)
Date: August, 1965
"His mind's all black thickets / and blood."
preview | full record— Harrison, Jim (1937-2016)
Date: 1966
"In the jungles of kid-dom, the mind switches gears rapidly."
preview | full record— Shepherd, Jean; Bob Clark, Leigh Brown
Date: 1966
"Deep in the recesses of my brain... a tiny red-hot little flame began to grow."
preview | full record— Shepherd, Jean; Bob Clark, Leigh Brown
Date: 1966
"A fuse blew and I had gone out of my skull."
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Date: 1968
"There is a little man who lives in one's head. The little man keeps a library."
preview | full record— Fodor, Jerry (b. 1935)
Date: 1968
In one's head is "a button on a control panel. The button is marked 'take the left free end of a shoelace in the left hand'. When depressed, it activates a series of wheels, cogs, levers, and hydraulic mechanisms."
preview | full record— Fodor, Jerry (b. 1935)
Date: 1968
"We might thus consider expanding the population in one's head to include subordinate little men who superintend the execution of the 'elementary' behaviors involved in complex sequences like grasping a shoelace."
preview | full record— Fodor, Jerry (b. 1935)
Date: 1968
"The shop foreman [in one's head] goes about supervising that activity in a way that is, in essence, a microcosm of supervising tying one's shoe. Indeed the shop foreman might be imagined to superintend a detail of wage slaves, whose functions include: searching inputs for traces of shoelace, fle...
preview | full record— Fodor, Jerry (b. 1935)