Date: 2004
Now your Pen shall be as liquid and infinite as your Mind as you complete 'Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets'!"
preview | full record— Wayne, Teddy
Date: 2007
"It would keep, and my brain filed it away for later."
preview | full record— Engel, Howard (b. 1931)
Date: 2007
"One's collection comes to symbolize the contents of one's mind."
preview | full record— Updike, John (1932-2009)
Date: 2007
"Books externalize our brains, and turn our homes into thinking bodies."
preview | full record— Updike, John (1932-2009)
Date: May 10, 2009
"Rather than storehouses of in-depth information, the web is turning our brains into indexes."
preview | full record— Suderman, Peter
Date: 2010
"The idea of sex with a woman, of 'having a lesbian lover,' was simply unthinkable, like living alone at the North Pole or deciding to become a lycanthrope. If the thought existed at all, it was a mote, a sweet nothing--a little 'feather on the breath of God,' barely sensed now and then, but most...
preview | full record— Castle, Terry (b. 1953)
Date: February 25, 2010
"That’s because rumination is largely rooted in working memory, a kind of mental scratchpad that allows us to 'work' with all the information stuck in consciousness."
preview | full record— Lehrer, Jonah
Date: 2011
"In contrast, '50 First Dates' utilizes Hawaii as a kind of blank slate, a place emptied of political turmoil and a perfect metaphor for the state of mind produced by the erasure of memory."
preview | full record— Halberstam, Jack [Judith] (b. 1961)
Date: September 5, 2011
"He [Derek Parfit] pictures his thinking self as a government minister sitting behind a large desk, who writes a question on a piece of paper and puts it in his out-tray. The minister then sits idly at the desk, twiddling his thumbs, while in some back room civil servants labor furiously, come up...
preview | full record— MacFarquhar, Larissa
Date: October 31, 2011
"The interpreter [the left-brain narrating system] creates the illusion of a meaningful script, as well as a coherent self."
preview | full record— Carey, Benedict (b. 1960)