Imagine you’re writing about this passage in an essay about how various writers use literary techniques to portray mysterious about relations between mind and body. Write for five minutes, brainstorming about what details in the passage you might choose to analyze. You might consider some of the questions below.

What details strike you as interesting or significant?

What is unusual or distinctive the imagery, metaphors, and language Jamison uses to describe mind-body relations?

How does Jamison’s representation of mind-body relations compare to Hustvedt’s (or to those of other writers we’ve read this semester)?