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Date: 2006

"The neurologist made the brain sound more rickety than the old toy trucks Mark used to assemble from discarded cabinet parts and sawn-off detergent bottles."

— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)

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"Mental space is larger than anyone can think."

— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)

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"His mind's a blank."

— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)

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"This subsystem still chattered; this one had fallen silent."

— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)

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"Back at Dayton Chaminade High, Weber had begun intellectual life as a confirmed Freudian--brain as hydraulic pipe for mind's spectacular waterworks--anything to confound his priest teachers."

— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)

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