A Contemplation of Chattering Minds

June 30, 2012, 3:04 am by Scientific American: Mind and Brain

(Image via Wikimedia Commons) On Friday I read a post by novelist and essayist Tim Parks on the New York Review of Books blog. Parks argues that the most memorable character in novels of the twentieth century is “the chattering mind, which usually means the mind that can t make up its mind, the mind postponing action in indecision and, if we re lucky, poetry.” [More]

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