Date: 1800
"The pen is a pacifyer. It checks the mind's career; it circumscribes her wanderings."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1984
"Minds aren't read. See, you've still got the paradigms print gave you, and you're barely print literate."
preview | full record— Gibson, William (b. 1948)
Date: 2006
"Conciousness works by telling a story, one that is whole, continuous, and stable. When that story breaks, consciousness rewrites it. Each revised draft claims to be the original."
preview | full record— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)
Date: 2010
"His cell was a concrete box six feet by ten with one window and a steel door with a slot wide enough to slip his hands through but that was all, and most of the time he just lay there on his cot, his mind so blank it was like a pail with nothing in it."
preview | full record— Cronin, Justin
Date: 2010
"The sentences were as clear in his mind as if written there."
preview | full record— Cronin, Justin