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Date: 1854

"For you remember how he stood here before you on this platform; you remember how, face to face and foot to foot, I pursued him through all his intricate windings; you remember how, he sneaked, and slunk, and sidled, and splitted of straws, until, with not an inch of ground to which to cling, I h...

— Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)

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Date: 1854

"I ha' lookn at't an thowt o' thee, Rachael, till the muddle in my mind have cleared awa, above a bit, I hope."

— Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)

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Date: 1854

"Inappeasably indignant with her for her triumphant discovery of Mrs. Pegler, he turned this presumption, on the part of a woman in her dependent position, over and over in his mind, until it accumulated with turning like a great snowball"

— Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)

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Date: 1859

"Not one of the three could could have said, from anything he saw, what either of the other two was like; and each was hidden under almost as many wrappers from the eyes of mind, as from the eyes of the body."

— Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)

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