“I can't even hear what I'm thinking most of the time. My brain's noisy.”
Source: Tiger Lily
Chris Cornell: The American Songwriter Twitterview, American Songwriter, November 1, 2011 https://americansongwriter.com/2011/11/chris-cornell-the-american-songwriter-twitterview/,
Soundgarden Era
“I can't even hear what I'm thinking most of the time. My brain's noisy.”
Source: Tiger Lily
“I told my brain., said my brain. My brain refused to get out of my head. Inconsiderate brain.”
Source: The Hammer of Thor
“… When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occassional cheese dip.”
Source: A Confederacy of Dunces
The Prisoner (October 1845)
Context: p>But first a hush of peace, a soundless calm descends;
The struggle of distress and fierce impatience ends
Mute music sooths my breast — unuttered harmony
That I could never dream till earth was lost to me.Then dawns the Invisible; the Unseen its truth reveals;
My outward sense is gone, my inward essence feels —
Its wings are almost free, its home, its harbour found;
Measuring the gulf, it stoops and dares the final bound — O, dreadful is the check — intense the agony
When the ear begins to hear and the eye begins to see;
When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again,
The soul to feel the flesh and the flesh to feel the chain.Yet I would lose no sting, would wish no torture less;
The more that anguish racks the earlier it will bless;
And robed in fires of Hell, or bright with heavenly shine
If it but herald Death, the vision is divine —</p
“This is your brain. This is Perl. This is your brain on Perl. Any questions?”
Re: can lisp do what perl does easily? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/fc76ebab1cb2f863 (Usenet article).
Usenet articles, Perl
Source: 1970s, Ecodynamics: A New Theory Of Societal Evolution, 1978, p. 20
I know, I know
I am not mad, but soon shall be.
"The Captive"; cited from The Life and Correspondence of M. G. Lewis (London: Henry Colburn, 1839) vol. 1, pp. 239-40.