"'Oh, man,' Pellegrin said. 'It was like her mind occupied the room'."
— Knausgaard, Karl Ove (b. 1968)
Date
December 30, 2015
Metaphor
"'Oh, man,' Pellegrin said. 'It was like her mind occupied the room'."
Metaphor in Context
I hadn't dared to speak to her during the operation. But now I went over. I wanted to ask her how she was doing, but when I saw her lying there, with her hand shielding her eyes, I said instead, in a thick voice, "You were very brave."
Afterward, when I took off the disposable gown, the face mask and the cap on the ground floor, I felt shaky.
"Oh, man," Pellegrin said. "It was like her mind occupied the room."
(p. 51)
Afterward, when I took off the disposable gown, the face mask and the cap on the ground floor, I felt shaky.
"Oh, man," Pellegrin said. "It was like her mind occupied the room."
(p. 51)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Reading print edition, text from online. See Karl Ove Knausgaard, "The Terrible Beauty of Brain Surgery," New York Times Magazine (January 3, 2016). <Link to NYTimes.com>
Date of Entry
01/05/2016
