Date: 1992
"Patrick had tried to sleep, but tattered rags of speed still trailed through his consciousness and kept him charging forward."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 2000
"The public situations that I have mentioned give rise to corresponding mental processes which are modeled on the public procedures, as a shadowy movement on a ceiling is modeled on an original physical movement on the floor."
preview | full record— Hampshire, Stuart (1914-2004)
Date: 2000
"My mind floated like the Bullet Train above its tracks, meeting no obstruction; everything clear."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 2005
"They fluttered [my memories] back eventually--but when they did, their hierarchy had changed, and some that had had crappy places before ended up with better ones: I remembered them more clearly; they seemed more important."
preview | full record— McCarthy, Tom (b. 1969)
Date: 2005
"Odd things were unearthed, bits of memory that must have been floating around like the fragment of bone inside my knee."
preview | full record— McCarthy, Tom (b. 1969)
Date: 2009
"One day quite soon, probably within the year, he will walk out of a room and never see her again, and this thought is so hard to conceive of that he shoves it away violently, concentrating instead on himself: his hangover, how tired he feels, how the pain throbs in his temples as he trots down t...
preview | full record— Nicholls, David (b. 1966)