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Date: August, 2009

"My brain is like an Internet browser; 12 tabs are open and 5 of them are not responding, there's a GIF playing in an endless loop,... and where is that annoying music coming from?"

— Anonymous

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Date: January 2010

"The man's suit, his hair, the sky through the window, and the rows of figures sliding across the abacus of his mind—these too are gray, though each gray is of a different value."

— Schwartz, Mattathias

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Date: January 2010

"Only one mind remained independent, humming along on its own steam."

— Schwartz, Mattathias

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Date: February 1, 2010

"Burn the body down / And, with it, out goes the pilot / Blue light of the mind."

— Cruz, Cynthia

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Date: May 27, 2010

"When you direct your mental spotlight to the basketball passes, it leaves the rest of the world in darkness."

— Bloom, Paul (b. 1963)

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Date: May 27, 2010

"But we tend to think that memory is objectively truthful, on analogy with a digital recording."

— Bloom, Paul (b. 1963)

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Date: May 17, 2010

"But Ashbery often writes from the position of the slackened mind, billowing with whatever passes through it; Armantrout generally writes in tautened distress, even when she's being funny."

— Chiasson, Dan

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Date: May 17, 2010

"It's the mind as problem-solving device, almost as calculator, though it is, of course, most drawn to problems that cannot be solved."

— Chiasson, Dan

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Date: June 1, 2010

"Books live in the mind like honey inside a beehive.

— McGrath, Campbell (b. 1962)

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Date: June 6, 2010

"A portion of the brain acts as a control tower, helping a person focus and set priorities."

— Richtel, Matt

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