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Date: 1949
"And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp."
preview | full record— Orwell, George (1903-1950)
Date: 1971
"Everything spun around him; then his mind blanked, like a TV suddenly switched off."
preview | full record— Jerzy N. Kosinski (1933-1991)
Date: 1984
"Case felt as though his brain were jammed."
preview | full record— Gibson, William (b. 1948)
Date: 1984
"Sandstorms raged across the scoured floor of his skull, generating waves of high thin static that broke behind his eyes, spheres of purest crystal, expanding."
preview | full record— Gibson, William (b. 1948)
Date: 1985
"In the dark the mind runs on like a devouring machine, the only thing awake in the universe."
preview | full record— Delillo, Don (b. 1936)
