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Date: May 4, 2018

"And other minds are finally less opaque."

— Druckerman, Pamela (b. 1970)

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Date: February 9, 2019

"When the world's coming at you in great clouds of 280-character Frisbees, naturally it's tempting to vanish into the forest dark of your own mind."

— Senior, Jennifer

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