Date: November 11, 1967
"Because suddenly, from a height of thousands of centuries, the first stone of an avalanche came tumbling down: it was my heart."
preview | full record— Lispector, Clarice (1920-1977)
Date: 1970
"Words came without volition, sinking very slowly through his mind like pebbles."
preview | full record— Murdoch, Iris (191-1999)
Date: 1995
"Soul is the place, / stretched like a surface of millstone grit between body and mind, / where such necessity grinds itself out"
preview | full record— Carson, Anne (b. 1951)
Date: 1999
"On its own this trigger, as we can see from the earlier definition, is not going to generate consciousness. Imagine a candyfloss machine with a stick in the centre that then gathers more and more candyfloss as time goes on. Think of the epicentre as the stick in the centre, the burgeoning candy...
preview | full record— Greenfield, Susan (b. 1950)
Date: 1999
"Perhaps the consciousness of dreaming is the almost random formation of little groups forming in different configurations like pebbles thrown very gently into the water. One can imagine the gentle ripples easily being displaced by the next pebble as it hits the water."
preview | full record— Greenfield, Susan (b. 1950)
Date: 1999
"The next day, I changed all my classmates’ names to numbers to better reflect their metal hearts."
preview | full record— Offill, Jenny (b. 1968)
Date: 2010
"Yet as I lift up this / dull desert stone, the weight of it is full / of slower, longer thoughts than mind can have."
preview | full record— Le Guin, Ursula (b. 1929)
Date: 2011
"Marx, his mind as hard and brilliant as a diamond, knew he would emerge the victor in any battle of wits."
preview | full record— Gabriel, Mary
Date: July 26, 2016
"But it is true that she told none of these types of personal anecdotes that help people watching at home form impressions from mental clay."
preview | full record— Haberman, Maggie (b. 1973)