Date: May 23, 1993
"'Your mind,' Admiral Crowe likes to tell university students, 'is a lot like a parachute -- it won't help you much if it doesn't open when you need it.'"
preview | full record— Rosenberg, David Alan
Date: 1994
"Because you are traveling right along with him as he forms his sentences, making each word he says appear as a little clump of letters on your screen, you begin to feel as if you are doing the thinking yourself; you occupy some dark space in the interior of his mind as he goes about his job."
preview | full record— Baker, Nicholson (b. 1957)
Date: 1997
"The Loaf, the indispensible point of convergence upon every British table, the solid British Quartern Loaf, is like the Soul, Emptiness."
preview | full record— Pynchon, Thomas (b. 1937)
Date: 1997
"Nor might any left behind on the ground see her again,-- would they?-- passing above in the Sky, the sleeves of her garment now catching light like wings...her mind no more than that of a Kite, the Wind blowing through..."
preview | full record— Pynchon, Thomas (b. 1937)
Date: 1998
"Jennifer Tilly plays Violet, a mob wife, prostitute, and femme with a steel-trap mind, and Gina Gershon plays Corky, Violet's ex-con lover."
preview | full record— Halberstam, Jack [Judith] (b. 1961)
Date: 1998
"But the static in your mind leaves you hollow and unkind / With a shock electric wave turns you on."
preview | full record— Hansen, Beck [Beck] (b. July 8, 1970)
Date: 1999
"'How do you expect to learn anything when you fill your mind with garbage?' he said."
preview | full record— Offill, Jenny (b. 1968)
Date: 1999
"A soul was like a worm in an apple, my mother told me."
preview | full record— Offill, Jenny (b. 1968)
Date: 2001
"The spirals around the galactic core, the coin of hair over the drain, the mind looking down into itself--each formed by a hole it just barely avoids falling into."
preview | full record— Richardson, James (b. 1950)
Date: 2001
"The mind notices it exists when it gets in its own way, as two strands have to get in each others' way to make a knot."
preview | full record— Richardson, James (b. 1950)