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She looked at Helen's faded jeans, ..., straight blond hair framing a
high-cheekboned face. But (* SHE SAW MORE THAN THAT. SHE SAW BENEATH THE
SURFACE, TO THE PLACES ANTHONY HAD BEEN, TO THE AREAS OF HELEN'S SOUL HE HAD
STAKED OUT.*)
[[Text: source p.56]]
In the many moleyears since, he had only ever thought of the Stone as a distant
thing, for (* THE SENSE OF GRACE THAT FLOWED INTO HIM THEN WAS OVERSHADOWED BY
THE FIGHTING AND LIVING, AND THE MATING,*..) that was the reality of Duncton in
his time. [NP] But now (..* THE GRACE RETURNED, DISTANT AND UNCERTAIN, BUT
THERE ALL THE SAME.*)
[[Text: source p.288]]
As she did so, (* A POWERFUL AND UNWANTED EXCITEMENT RAN THROUGH
HER, A FORBIDDEN AND OBSCENE EXCITEMENT THAT SHE TRIED TO BLOT FROM HER MIND:*)
the excitement of seeing the two huge males both of whom she loved, fighting
for her.
[[Text: source p.245-246]]
Pregnancy for them was a burden, not a miracle. (* ALL THE EXCITEMENT IT
MIGHT HAVE RELEASED IN THEM SEEMED TO HAVE POURED INTO HER, INSTEAD, SEEPED
EVEN INTO HER DREAMS --- SWOLLEN SCARLET DREAMS *) where she was hugely pregnant
and childbirth was a kind of sacred orgasm ...
[[Text: source p.453]]
{mixing with DREAMS AS CONTAINERS}
He groaned, feeling, smelling, (* AS IT CAME BUBBLING TO THE SURFACE, ALL THAT
OLD MURDEROUS JEALOUSY AND HATE WHICH HAD BEEN PACKED AWAY, A DANGEROUS ATOMIC
CAPSULE, SUBMERGED FOR SO LONG IN *THE DARKEST SEA CAVERNS OF HIS MIND.*)
[[Text: source p.77]]
Suddenly, down into the (* FURTHEST CRANNIES OF BEING *) all was well.
[[Text: source p.339]]
But then (* A TINY WORRY BEGAN TO GROW IN A CORNER OF MY MIND.*)
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He was sitting up, already (* FULL OF FEARS THAT *) she had left him, ...
[[Text: source]]
(* ANGER BUBBLED UP IN PHILIP *) the way blood bubbles up through a sharp cut
in skin. Like that blood flow he couldn't immediately control it, (* THERE WAS
NO COLD TAP TO HOLD HIS RAGE UNDER,*) and he cursed silently in the closed car.
[[Text: source]]
... I could see the [person with his arm in a] sling, zig zagging erratically
along the pavement and reminding more than anything of the time when (* MY
FEELINGS HAD LURCHED AND ZIG ZAGGED AROUND INSIDE MY HEAD IN EXACTLY THE SAME
WAY.*)
[[Text: source]]
His troubled look and nervous manner when he opened the door (* FILLED HER WITH
APPREHENSION.*)
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I had known Mick all my life. ... (* MY [romantic] FEELINGS [towards
Mick] HAD ONLY BEGUN TO EMERGE *) when ...
[[Text: source]]
... (* FILLED WITH A SUPERNATURAL COURAGE *) that came from nowhere.
[[Text: source p.66]]
Not only do my husband and I have to attend to and (* CONTAIN OUR OWN
FEELINGS *) of guilt and grief; ...
[[Text: source]]
"(* BUYING THINGS CAN FILL UP PEOPLE WHO FEEL EMPTY.*)" says Susan Brace,
the L.A. psychologist.
[[Text: source]]