Thoughts like …
A sorrowful image of a tired soul, feeling isolated.
As her stray ideas returned slowly, each folding its weak...
Of long and short time
While I have seen many comments on the elasticity of experienced time, this is the first one...
Chew on it
A satisfying simile for mulling over an idea before implementing it. There is much playful language in the wisdom deftly...
Where is the chair?
An endearing philosophical philistinism in the elderly father of Rory Stewart. Ever practical, he had no truck with time-wasting on...
On thinking things through
Of course, there's a lot to be said for thinking things through, but sometimes 'plunging-off' forms of thought have great...
The thoughts of a pig
A wonderfully involved tail of a pig's escape and eventual recapture.
Firstly, a protracted endeavour to find him, eventually discovered...
The translation of thinking
Steinbeck seeks to understand the difficulties his interpreters faced when supporting him on his trip to the Soviet Union with...
Gutter thinking
This is Bartle Massey, he of the blade-sharp tongue, laying into the so-called students who come to him for learning.
...
Long term thinking
A family gathering for the christening of the heir to the Gormenghast title, Titus, appears to be the first time...
A thinking breakfast
This is one of two delightful quotations from Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan in which the characters mention their need to...
The hardest thing in the world
Curious that this comment by John Steinbeck so closely echoes a similar observation on the difficulty of...
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