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(* HER MIND CAME TO THE RESCUE,*) the way minds do when the terror is too
much. (* It shut down *)---not completely--- ...
[[Text: source p.184]]
(* Philippe---HER MIND RACED AWAY FROM THE SYLLABLES OF HIS NAME.*)
[[Text: source p.184]]
It wasn't about some faceless, shadowy dream figure: this one was flesh and blood and (* HAD A GRIP ON HER THAT LEFT BRUISES. *)
She was aware of the ways in which she was (* SOFTENING.*) Going to Paris was
part of that---a romantic excursion with her lover. Except her lover had (*
CALLUSES ON HIS HANDS FROM TEARING AWAY AT PEOPLE'S DEFENSES, AND NOW HE WAS
TEARING AWAY AT HERS.*) (* THAT KNOWLEDGE WAS THE REBEL PART OF HER THAT
REFUSED TO SOFTEN.*)
[[Text: source p.68]]
No good pretending he [a hound] had (* forgotten,*) though many killings had (*
ASSUAGED THE MEMORY.*)
[[Text: source p.627]]
And nomole was more aware than Rebecca, healer now to the system of Duncton,
that (* HOPES AND MEMORIES ARE LIKE WINTER ACONITE, A SOURCE OF HEALTH AND JOY
IF USED ONE WAY, A DEBILITATING POISON IF USED ANOTHER.*)
[[Text: source p.578]]
Weary, her wet paws sore, (* HER MIND DAZED AND UPSET *)
Rebecca crouched down in the Stone clearing ...
[[Text: source p.226]]
But (* HIS SPECULATION was now to be seen as idle and empty, IT HAD GAINED ITS
POISONOUS FORCE FROM THAT OTHER POISON, WHICH WAS AT LAST UTTERLY GONE FROM
HIM.*)
[[Text: source p.582]]
(* HE FELT, OFTEN, AS IF HE HAD BEEN ENTIRELY BROKEN, SMASHED, PULVERISED, LIKE
A LARGE CHINA VASE WHOSE PIECES CLEARLY, OBVIOUSLY, COULD NEVER BE PUT TOGETHER
AGAIN. MORE OFTEN HE FELT THAT A STUMP OF HIMSELF HAD SURVIVED, A STURDY WICKED
IRONICAL STUMP.*)
[[Text: source p.524]]
... that she had been poured out like water and all her bones were out of
joint, that she desired to be washed and to be whiter than snow, (* THAT
A BROKEN AND CONTRITE SPIRIT MIGHT NOT BE DESPISED, THAT BROKEN BONES MIGHT
AFTER ALL REJOICE,*) ...
[[Text: source p.493]]
The little infinitesimal spark of hope which she had gained simply from
Jenkin's presence was extinguished. It was blackness again, ravaged, smashed,
crushed, pulverised blackness, like the night after the earthquake, only the
dark was silent, there were no voices, no one was there, only herself, (* HER
VAST AWFUL SMASHED UP SELF.*)
[[Text: source p.485]]
{NB: mixing with COGNIZING AS SEEING.}
She thought, he is sick, he is sick, (* HE IS POISONED BY THOSE
THOUGHTS,*) by those terrible thoughts.
[[Text: source p.483]]
{NB: nesting within IDEAS AS INTERNAL UTTERANCES}
But (* HER WISH that somehow he could know remained as a POINT OF PAIN,*) ...
[[Text: source p.477]]
'I hope I've dealt an (* INTELLECTUAL WOUND.*)'
[[Text: source p.298]]
... (* NO HAZE OF DOUBT NOW GENTLED HIS MIND.*)
[[Text: source p.86]]
Such are the remarkable faculties of the human mind, such was my (* mind *)
that morning in the park as (* IT EXPANDED AND REJOICED.*)
[[source p.233]]
{NB: issue re how to
resolve the `IT,, since link to `MIND' requires prior realization that a mind
can `REJOICE'. Also, a morning could metaphorically rejoice.}
Since I shall be timelessly available (* IN YOUR MIND AS A CURATIVE AGENCY,*)
it would be a pity, would it not, if the real me were to intrude.
[[Text: source p.267]]
Wegner and his colleagues aren't certain why this [persistent return of
unwanted thoughts] occurs. He suspects that in suppressing a thought, (* the mind
is still ``monitoring'' the ``contents of consciousness''*..) for any (..* vestige of
the PAINFUL THOUGHT,*) and is thus more sensitive to that thought.
[[Text: source]]
Would he ever be able to forget what she had done and that he had loved her?
(* IT MIGHT GROW FAINT AND VAGUE BUT IT WOULD ALWAYS BE THERE.*) ... She would
kill [more people] as time went on. She was made that way, she was mad. For all
the rest of his life he would be (* MARKED BY IT,*) he thought. Even if he
never spoke to her again, never saw her, (* IT WOULD SCAR HIM.*)
[[Text: source]]
{NB: Everything is within his thought, so we have metaphor of mind nested
within a thought.}
{discourse coherence}
(* SHE DIDN'T QUITE BELIEVE WHAT WAS HAPPENING, HER MIND AND BODY WERE NUMB.*)
[[Text: source]]
{zeugma-avoidance}
... I (*CALLOUSED MY MIND *) ... {said by speaker just after talking about his
behind being calloused because of beatings from his father}
[[Speech: source]]
I wanted to stay awake and hear but I was sleepy. (* MY MIND WAS LIKE ONE
SMALL ANIMAL, ALERT BUT FRIGHTENED, IN A CORNER OF A HUGE CAVE. IT WAS TRYING
TO SEE OUT OF THE LARGE DARKNESS TO THE LIGHT, STRAINING.*)
[[Text: source]]
`Mohammed, ah yah,' the old woman said, her head going up and down
slowly (* AS IF, ON A STRING FAR AWAY, HER MIND WAS A KITE SEARCHING HIGH
MOUNTAIN GRASSES FOR SOMETHING LOST.*)
[[Text: source]]
{NB: zeugma-avoidance?: correspondence of head movement and metaphorical mind movement}
Metaphor is the linguistic realization of a (* LEAP OF THOUGHT *..) from one
domain to another---in which (..* THE SPRINGBOARD *) is a structure-preserving
mapping.
[[Text: source]]
The overwhelming (* INTELLECTUAL ANESTHESIA *..) and (..* EMOTIONAL ANALGESIA
*) of sexual arousal ...
[[Text: source p.15-16]]
the nebulous mental meanderings that had (* PLAGUED ME *) since ...
[[Text: source p.48]]
{mixed metaphor}
He took his cold hand off the stone balustrade. (* HIS SOUL SWAYED IN A VERTIGO
OF MORAL INDECISION.*) ...
[[Text: source p.63]]
{NB: conceptual zeugma-avoidance -- hand off balustrade, soul swaying. }
Ordinarily speaking, the proximity of this positive and objective crime
would have sobered Syme, and (* CURED HIM OF ALL HIS MERELY MYSTICAL TREMORS.*)
He would have (* thought *) of nothing but the need of saving at least two
human bodies from being ripped in pieces with iron and roaring gas. But the
truth was that by this time he had begun to feel a third kind of (* FEAR,*) ...
[[Text: source p.62]]
He knew that he had neither the (* INTELLECTUAL NOR THE PHYSICAL STRENGTH *) of
President Sunday, ...
[[Text: source p.66]]
{NB: zeugma-avoidance -- strength}
{MN: nesting}
Europeans seem just as (* HUNGRY FOR A TASTE *) of American culture. At
Wembley, the Monarchs, who are owned by English showbiz agent Jon Smith,
provide the kind of glitzy spectacle one might find at the Orange Bowl.
[[Text: source]]
Never in memory have (* THE NETWORKS HUNGERED *) more desperately for a
hit.
[[Text: source]]
But others say his Japanese bosses were (* UNCOMFORTABLE *) with his abrasive
manner and extravagant habits.
[[Text: source]]
It is a (* CITY RACKED *...) by chaos and (...* SELF-DOUBT.*)
[[Text: source]]
Pro-choice and right-to-life activists are (* ACHING *) for an opportunity to
make dramatic stands at the GOP's convention next year in Houston.
[[Text: source]]
But if (* ONE'S MIND SOMETIMES BALKS, ONE'S HEART EMBRACES *) the movie's
fine, wide-open spirit, its genuine respect for a culture we destroyed without
a second thought.
[[Text: source]]
"(* CHILDREN THRIVE ON THE SENSE *) that they are part of a special group
that is distinguishable from all others," observes Zeitlin.
[[Text: source]]
{NB: most of passage is in upper case in the file}
through lying, (* THE MIND GROWS WARY OR STRONG FROM SWIMMING *) against the stream
[[Text: source]]
Books are (* EMBALMED MINDS *)
[[Text: source]]
Wrinkles are the deathbed wherein women (* BURY THEIR ILLUSIONS *)
[[Text: source]]
Every extreme attitude is a (* FLIGHT FROM THE SELF *)
[[Text: source]]
{presumably the mind does the flying}
As the months went by, the (* PSYCHIC PAIN *) grew to almost intolerable
levels. Unable to perform work, Natasha would lie on her office sofa, afraid
to be away from the phone in case Walt called.
[[Text: source]]
Twelve-step programs have proved particularly successful in this arena. "What
we do is (* METAPHORICALLY HOLD A MIRROR UP TO THE PARTICIPANTS *) and say,
'You see what we see? What are you going to do about it?,"' says Linda, ...
[[Text: source]]
Rosenfeld reports that parents who are in tune with their own (* INNER
PSYCHOLOGICAL LIFE *) are able to determine how to ...
[[Text: source]]