Date: 1800
"I merely write to allay those tumults which our necessary separation produces; to aid me in calling up a little patience, till the time arrives, when our persons, like our minds, shall be united forever."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1984
"In his mind's eye, a kind of time-lapse photography took place, revealing the thing as the biological equivalent of a machine gun, hideous in its perfection."
preview | full record— Gibson, William (b. 1948)
Date: 1997
"Is it something in this Wilderness, something ancient, that waited for them, and infected their Souls when they came?"
preview | full record— Pynchon, Thomas (b. 1937)
Date: 1997
"They were possessing her in ways more intimate than had ever been allow'd him...interfering at orders of minitude invisible to the human Eye, infiltrated without need of light or Map, commanding the further branches of whatever flows in a Soul like blood,...she and her Captors whispering togethe...
preview | full record— Pynchon, Thomas (b. 1937)
Date: 2009
"Like some inoperable cancerous thing inside his brain, a new mental organ had awakened, insistently and without mercy pushing him forward, punishing him with guilt, compelling him to feel things and want things that can't be argued for or against on the basis of logical reasoning, analy...
preview | full record— Konstantinou, Lee
Date: 2009
"Whatever else has happened to him, the moral thing that erupted in his mind hasn't gone into remission. If anything, it has only metastasized, secretly colonizing, under the cover of this last month's madness, more and more of his sense of self."
preview | full record— Konstantinou, Lee
Date: 2010
"In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last."
preview | full record— Cronin, Justin
Date: 2011
"There will be such an awful beauty in your heart. A wound like a seal upon it."
preview | full record— Nadzam, Bonnie
Date: 2015
"She knew Lee well, and by heading southeast, she had hidden in the folds of his own cerebral cortex."
preview | full record— Zink, Nell (b. 1964)
Date: 2015
"She regarded the token male Lee as a dull-witted, penile one-trick pony (to her, consistency was evidence of a mind standing erect), while women were polymath geniuses until proven otherwise."
preview | full record— Zink, Nell (b. 1964)