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Date: 1921

"Locked doors in his mind were swinging wide, revealing forgotten sumptuous halls of his imagination."

— John Dos Passos (1896-1970)

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Date: 1921

"His limbs felt very heavy; his mind was permeated with dusty stagnation like the stagnation of old garrets and lumber rooms, where, among superannuated bits of machinery and cracked grimy crockery, lie heaps of broken toys."

— John Dos Passos (1896-1970)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.