In the labyrinth of a difficult text, we find unmarked forks in the path, detours, blind alleys, loops that deliver us back to our... point of entry, and finally the monster who whispers an unintelligible truth in our ears.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An accurate charting of the American woman's progress through history might look more like a corkscrew tilted slightly to one side..., its loops inching closer to the line of freedom with the passage of time--but like a mathematical curve approaching infinity, never touching its goal. . . . Each time, the spiral turns her back just short of the finish line.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He crafted his writing and loved listening to those tiny explosions when the active brutality of verbs in revolution raced into sw...eet established nouns to send marching across the page a newly commissioned army of words-on-maneuvers, all decorated in loops, frets, and arrowlike flourishes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity a...nd degeneracy. Unlike a computer, it has no replicative memory. It is historical and value driven. It forms categories by internal criteria and by constraints acting at many scales, not by means of a syntactically constructed program. The world with which the brain interacts is not unequivocally made up of classical categories.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »