Date: May 30, 1994
"The Great Depression had entered our souls like fog."
preview | full record— Justice, Donald (1925-2004)
Date: 1995
"In what way is the mind like a computer that is different from its resemblance, for example, to a telephone switchboard (which was the most popular image in psychology some years ago), or to a cathedral, which once long ago was also a major poetical image (consider: the caverns of the mind, the ...
preview | full record— Shipley, Thorne (1927-2009)
Date: July 23, 1995
"His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free."
preview | full record— Smith, Chuck
Date: 1995, 2002
"However, as I said last night, we just ask for this because most of us consider ourselves as chauffeurs inside our bodies, which we own in the same way as we own a car. When it goes wrong we take it to the mechanic to fix it and we do not really identify with our body, just as we do not really i...
preview | full record— Watts, Alan (1915-1973)
Date: 1996
"The general was busy with the ant farm in his head."
preview | full record— Simic, Charles (b. 1938)
Date: 1996
"Each one of my thoughts was being ghostwritten / By anonymous authors."
preview | full record— Simic, Charles (b. 1938)
Date: 1996
"Drinking caffeine is thus like putting a block of wood under one of the brain's primary brake pedals."
preview | full record— Braun, Stephen
Date: 1996
"You would certainly feel stimulated, since one of your brain's main "brakes" would be disabled. But other brakes, such as GABA, would still be functioning and in the absence of any extra direct stimulants overall activity wouldn't kindle into the kind of neural conflagration that can occur with ...
preview | full record— Braun, Stephen
Date: 1996
"One would expect, then, that such a political period would be rife with various veins of pseudo-mysticism, enamoured of whatever gives the slip to the concept, enthralled by those spasms of mind which confound its customary distinctions, which breed in us some ecstatic state of indeterminacy in ...
preview | full record— Eagleton, Terry (b. 1943)
Date: February 8, 1996
"Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications."
preview | full record— Barlow, John Perry (b. 1947)