Date: 1914
"nd I know that just as the voice of Jesus was not heard, and is not heard, save here and there; just as the voice of Tolstoy is not heard, save here and there; and others great and small are lost in the great echoless desert of indifferentism, having produced little perceptible effect, so my voi...
preview | full record— de Cleyre, Voltairine (1866-1912)
Date: 1914
"I think with all his purity Emerson had within him the turbid stream of passion and desire; for all his hard-cut granite features he knew the instincts of the weakling and the slave; and for all his sweetness, he had the tiger and the jackal in his soul."
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Date: September 22, 2015
"This is not to say that "Tender Torrent" wasn't "fun" (it seems to be out of print today, the most enduring form of censorship); but for me, its greatest entertainment value lay in returning it to its owner, aware of the lewd visions that seethed beneath her sunny exterior. And really, that perc...
preview | full record— Schillinger, Liesl
Date: June 5, 2016
"Professor Sunstein's talk turned out to be a success, and his wife was on board when he decided to give book-length treatment to the ideas rattling around in his brain."
preview | full record— Rosman, Katherine
Date: September 18, 2016
"In the red glare of the digital clock, my brain rattled its cage."
preview | full record— Kennedy, Pagan (b. 1963)
Date: September 18, 2016
"In the dark hours, when we're wandering in the wilderness of thought, sometimes we just need to feel that someone, even a digital someone with a prerecorded voice, is watching over us."
preview | full record— Kennedy, Pagan (b. 1963)
Date: March 18, 2017
"So many secrets, so many plots, so many shards of gossip swirl in his head, there seems to be no room for reality."
preview | full record— Dowd, Maureen (b. January 14, 1952)
Date: May 12, 2018
"Our brains are so scrambled that it's starting to make sense that none of it makes sense."
preview | full record— Dowd, Maureen (b. January 14, 1952)
Date: February 21, 2019
"She opened the portal, and the mind met her more than halfway."
preview | full record— Lockwood, Patricia
Date: February 21, 2019
"What, in place of these sentences, marched in the brains of previous generations?"
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