I love to play with my brain, and Messiaen offers a universe of possibilities.
"A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain," Carraway notes - a universe that encompassed not just the lavish parties that Gatsby laid on, but a multitude of glittering possibilities far removed from the bootlegging and gangsterism that were the true source of his wealth.
Clearly his brain is the size of a universe and half the time we're chatting my mouth is open in awe.
My brain is treating the music like a universe of complexity and investing that universe with its own deity, for whom I feel some measure of awe and reverence.
We can always imagine ("conceive of") a universe populated by creatures having those brain processes but completely lacking conscious experience.
This means, he conceded when asked in an interview, that even a bucket of rusting nails should have, in principle, the computational oomph of a desktop computer, a human brain or the universe itself.
A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain… a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing".
Each is a universe unto itself.
