When no other reason, like genetic predisposition, can be summoned, the mind weaves the most tenuous strands of information into an imagined cause.
Quotes are the actual fabric with which the mind weaves: internalizing them, but also turning them inside out, quarreling with them, adding to them, wandering through their architecture as if a single sentence were an expansible labyrinthine space.
Sometimes, his mind weaves these threads together to poignant effect, as when Ed finds himself standing across the street from where Mary sits in a car, unable to cross over.
His tired mind weaves a tale that combines details of his life with more fantastic flights — such as the story of a man who, waking up in an alternate universe where 9/11 never happened and the 2000 election led to civil war, is sent on a mission to destroy the very person who has imagined him into existence.
We take for granted how our mind weaves everything together.
The French word for vocation — métier — also means "loom," and Mallarmé referred to himself as a "sacred spider" spinning threads from his mind and weaving them into "marvelous laces".
Trite as it may sound, I feel as if all the individual threads of my mind are woven properly together by the act of gardening.
Hearing Leila say those words out loud felt like somebody had taken some vague, gloopy shapes from inside my mind and woven them into sentences that made sense and could suddenly be presented matter-of-factly.
The mind then weaves those constructs into complex interpretative schemes.
His additive method of painting brought to mind lowly crafts like weaving, bricklaying and mosaics, resulting, in the mid-1970's, in works based on Byzantine mosaics; some were shown at Gavin Brown Modern in December.
