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This time, (* THE IMAGE THAT FLOATED INTO HER MIND AND FASTENED THERE *) was of
herself and Susan, axed to pieces, in the bathroom, in the kitchen.
[[Text: source p.68]]
Even while (* ROLLING THESE DESIRES THROUGH HER MIND,*) she recognized them as her habitual response to trouble.
[[Text: source p.84]]
(* THE IMPOSSIBILITY *..) of turning the corner [of the ledge on the
building-side] immobilized her, (..* EXPANDED IN HER MIND LIKE A BALLOON,
PUSHING EVERY OTHER MORE REASONABLE THOUGHT AWAY.*)[NP]
[[Text: source p.265]]
{mixed with METONYMY of Thing for Idea of that thing}
The fears she had had of Susan earlier in the week, the glimpse she had
seemed to see of Susan in her apartment, were (* HER KNOWLEDGE OF THE MURDER
RISING TO THE SURFACE,*) ...
[[Text: source p.206-7]]
After the love-making (* TAMAR'S STATE OF MIND, WHICH HAD BEEN CLEAR AND
SINGLE, EVEN A KIND OF PEACE OF MIND, BECAME A DARK BATTLEFIELD OF INCOMPATIBLE
EMOTIONS.*)
[[Text: source p.323]]
{MIND AS BATTLEGROUND}
It was always like this---(* PULLING HIS FACE BACK INTO HER MIND; IT
DISAPPEARED SO EASILY SOMETIMES. OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND *)...
[[Text: source p.197]]
(* THE [memory of the] RAPE KEPT CLAWING AT HER, SCREAMING IN THE
DEEPEST RECESSES OF HER PSYCHE. SHE'D SEEN IT FOLLOWING HER, TRACKING HER
THROUGH THE DAYS.*)
[[Text: source p.184]]
She could still feel Anthony inside her [after their sexual intercourse], but
(* IT WAS Belinda's FACE THAT CROWDED INTO HER MIND, PUSHING EVERYTHING ELSE
OUT.*)
[[Text: source p.161]]
{zeugma-avoidance: inside her / crowded into}
Sara read the letter over, (* knew that it would (* BE FILED IN
ONE OF THE BOTTOM DRAWERS OF HER PSYCHE---AND HOPEFULLY IN God's TOP DRAWER
*)...
[[Text: source p.147]]
... and (* SEARCHED HER MIND *) for whatever Cliffs Notes might be jotted
there---just in case.
[[Text: source p.142]]
She was too (* confused *) to judge anything. If he'd done nothing
else, he'd at least (* INVADED HER THOUGHTS AND TOSSED THEM AROUND UNTIL THERE
WAS ONLY CHAOS IN HER HEAD.*)
[[Text: source p.127]]
These (* thoughts occurred *) to Belinda as she sat in the Holiday Inn
ballroom, but not for the first time. (* Philippe (* HAD GOTTEN IN THERE
*)---that much she knew.*..) (..* SHE KEPT BUMPING INTO HIM IN HER MIND; AT
EVERY TURN OF HER THOUGHTS SHE SAW HIM STANDING THERE, ARMS OUTSTRETCHED,
BECKONING HER.*)
[[Text: source p.117]]
She tried to (* PUT ROADBLOCKS UP ALONG HER IMAGINATION'S MORE MORBID
DETOURS.*)
[[Text: source p.111]]
She paced around her dark living room for nearly an hour, trying to (* FORCE
HIM AWAY, TO WILL HIM OUT OF HER MIND.*) ... She'd gotten it down to a
formula---(* SENDING A MAN DOWN A LONG ROAD IN HER MIND, OVER SOME HILLS, INTO
THE NEXT COUNTY,*) ... But with Anthony, she couldn't remember the formula. (*
EVERY WAY SHE TURNED, HE WAS RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER.*)
[[Text: source p.48]]
... were (* QUESTIONS OCCUPYING MY MIND SO BUSILY, THAT ONE MIGHT HAVE SUPPOSED
THERE COULD BE NO MORE ROOM IN IT *) for any other theme. Even when I thought
of Estella ... --- even then (* I WAS PURSUING, HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE, THE
CAUTION *) Don't go home.
[[Text: source p.310]]
... and its disappointments, dangers, disgraces, consequences of all kinds, (*
RUSHED IN IN SUCH A MULTITUDE *) that I was borne down by them and had to
struggle for every breath I drew.
[[Text: source p.274-5]]
{or should this be MIND WITHIN PHYSICAL SPACE??}
[Picasso] wants you to (* REMEMBER SOMEWHERE IN YOUR MIND *) that [the shapes
have been used as breasts in other pictures].
[Speech: interviewee on ``Charlie Rose'', KRWG-TV, Las Cruces, New Mexico, 9sep96]
{NB: nesting within ``wants''}
A (* FLOOD OF WILD SURMISES *) as to the part Commander Haydock had played in
Tommy's disappearance (* SURGED THROUGH TUPPENCE'S BRAIN,*) but she (* THRUST THEM
RESOLUTELY ASIDE.*) This was a moment for (* keeping all her wits about her.*)
[[Text: source p.171]]
....[some paragraphs of Tommy's thoughts in third-person implicit IDEAS AS INTERNAL UTTERANCES]...
(* ALL THIS PASSED THROUGH TOMMY'S MIND IN A FEW SECONDS.*)
[[Text: source p.126-7]]
{NB: mixing with IDEAS AS INTERNAL UTTERANCES}
The Commander's voice had ceased. He appeared suddenly in the doorway. And (* WITH A CLICK, SEVERAL THINGS FELL INTO PLACE IN TOMMY'S BRAIN.*)
Had he been blind up to now? .....
[[Text: source p.126]]
{NB: mixing with implicit IDEAS AS INTERNAL UTTERANCES, latter with nested COGNIZING AS SEEING}
`I don't quite know. When you said that (* SOMETHING TWANGED IN MY BRAIN,*) and
now it's gone again!'
[[Text: source p.111]]
A (* FAINT MEMORY FLICKERED THROUGH Tuppence's MIND.*) A shop filled with
glass, through which it was difficult to move, a rich persuasive voice, a
compelling massive woman. Yes, surely, she had been into that shop.
[[Text: source p.47]]
{NB: mixing with implicit IDEAS AS INTERNAL UTTERANCES}
For the next few weeks, (* I OPENED MYSELF TO THE UNIVERSE.*) If I saw a
handsome man, I sat for ten seconds and imagined him kissing my neck.
[[Text: source p.79]]
`Men have had a strategy for eons, (* KEEPING THE BACK OF THEIR MIND
ALWAYS ON SEX,*)' Dr. Zilbergeld explained.
[[Text: source p.79]]
(* IN THE BACK OF MY MIND, a question still burned: How come it's so easy for
men to stay aroused?*)
[[Text: source p.79]]
It was at that moment, as Tryfan gazed on their love together, and perhaps (*
WITH THEIR WORDS DURING THEIR LONG CONVERSATIONS ABOUT the Stillstone STILL IN
HIS MIND, that the FIRST DEFINITE MEMORIES of the Midsummer Night when he had
got lost BEGAN TO STIR IN HIS MIND.*) [NP] ... as (* THOSE MEMORIES BECAME
CLEARER AND HE SAW AGAIN, IN HIS MIND, THE GLIMMER OF the Stillstone.*)
[[Text: source]]
{NB: mixing w. COGNIZING AS SEEING}
(* THE FACT THAT SHE WAS WITH LITTER MADE HIM ANGRY AND TURNED AND TWISTED IN
HIS MIND AND PUT A BARRIER OF SUSPICION AND JEALOUSY BEFORE HIS EYES.*)
[[Text: source]]
In his nightmares he did, when he remembered the power in the mole who had
faced him contemptuously somewhere among these slate tips. He knew where. (*
SLOWLY HE ADMITTED THE MEMORY TO HIS MIND *) and (* saw again the great mole *) ...
[[Text: source p.627]]
{NB: mixing w. COGNIZING AS SEEING}
(* THE IMAGES she had invoked of age, and of quest, and of Mandrake, to whom
she spoke as if he were still alive, MELDED IN HIS MIND AND SOARED TO THE
Stones of Siabod *) where he knew he must go.
[[Text: source p.611]]
{Also metonymy of OBJECTS FOR IDEAS, in ``soared to the Stones of Siabod''?. Or
is this MIND WITHIN PHYSICAL SPACE?
(* SOME THINGS STICK IN THE MIND.*)
[[Speech: source]]
I may have (* PLANTED THAT IDEA IN MARK'S HEAD.*)
[[Speech: source]]
{NOTE: The sentence may well *not* appeal to the horticultural notion of
planting, but rather to the type of plantin occurring in ``planting evidence''
somewhere.}
... (* THE CRITICAL ISSUE IN THEIR MINDS WAS *) ...[description of issue]
[[Speech: source]]
(* IN THE MINDS OF THE YOUNG, his leadership against Rune and Mandrake was more
legend than contemporary history,*) and though many a youngster crouched by the
Stone and gazed towards the west just as Bracken was said to have done, few
could really believe he still existed, or could now come back.
[[Text: source p.583]]
... (* AN IDEA CAME TO HIM, A SUGGESTION, A POSSIBILITY, THAT GREW IN HIS MIND ONLY
SLOWLY AS LIGHT GROWS AT DAWN ON A WINTER'S MORNING.*..) He broke the silence
around him with it, speaking it out almost (..* BEFORE THE THOUGHT WAS CLEARLY
INTO HIS MIND:*) ...
[[Text: source p.575]]
(* ISN'T THERE IN YOU SOMEWHERE A FEELING THAT *) ...
[[Speech: source]]
(* HE HAD A DOZEN THINGS IN HIS MIND TO SAY, BUT THEY ALL FELL AWAY BEFORE HER
STILL GAZE *) ...
[[Text: source p.431]]
Bracken found that Stonecrop, on the other hand, had a very hard and
powerful spirit, though one that was inflexible and therefore, in Medlar's
terms, fairly easy to get round. (* IN HIS OWN MIND, Bracken came to
understand this by thinking of Stonecrop as a series of burrows and tunnels,
not unlike the Barrow Vale, where, if a mole kept his head and spirit firm, he
would eventually find a way through.*)
[[Text: source p.418]]
{NB: *not* an example of IDEAS AS MODELS.}
They talked about a thousand things, but (* WHAT Rose MOST PUT INTO REBECCA'S
MIND WERE SEEDS OF THOUGHT TO GROW RATHER THAN FINISHED PLANTS TO FADE.*)
[[Text: source p.398]]
He turned his back to it and snouted out again, seeing if he could feel any
other pulls. Well, of course, there was Uffington; he could feel that. Deep and
distant but always strong. He crouched silent and still, letting his mind
wander out of his body and around the horizon in the circle.*) It was hard not
to be continually pulled by Duncton and Uffington, the two Stone pulls with
which he was familiar, (* BUT SLOWLY HE FORGOT THEM, PUTTING THEM IN THE
BACKGROUND OF HIS BODY AND MIND AND SEEING WHAT ELSE HE COULD FEEL.*)
[[Text: source p.385]]
{NB: zeugma-avoidance}
(* FROM THE LIGHT-FILLED RECESSES OF HIS SOUL, WHERE THE CHERISHED THINGS OF
THE HEART LIE STILL AND WAITING, THERE CAME A MEMORY OF THE Stone.*)
[[Text: source p.288]]
With each word that Rune now spoke (* A PICTURE OF HIS [Mandrake's] REBECCA,
HIS DAUGHTER REBECCA, HIS UNTOUCHED CHILD, HARDENED ON THE EDGE OF HIS MIND
WHERE NOMOLE [sic] AT FIRST LIKES TO LOOK, BUT TO WHICH A JEALOUS MOLE MAY
EASILY BE DRAWN.*)
[[Text: source p.241]]
{mixing with COGNIZING AS SEEING}
But Hulver himself didn't know what he was going to say,
since (* IT ALL CAME INTO HIS MIND AND OUT AS WORDS *) without him
seeming to have too much to do with it.
[[Text: source p.76]]
The boys sat silent for a moment with their eyes shut. Jennifer couldn't
wish herself. There were too many (* PRIORITIES CLASHING IN HER HEAD, TOO
MANY PEOPLE CLAMOURING *) for good fortune ...
[[Text: source p.436]]
{plus metonymy of OBJECT FOR IDEA (clamouring people);
plus mixing with IDEAS AS INTERNAL UTTERANCES??}
{NB: it's clear from context that the clamouring people are ``in her mind,''
not real people present in the situation}
(* ALL THE THINGS SHE HAD ACHED TO SAY WERE DAMMED UP TIGHT INSIDE HER.*)
[[Text: source p.378]]
{serial mixing with metaphor of object-collection as liquid}
He had hardly thought at all whilst he was drawing --- needed all his
concentration to get it right. But (* THE THOUGHTS HAD BEEN JAMMING UP INSIDE
HIS HEAD, READY TO FLOOD OVER *) when he laid his chalks and paper down.
[[Text: source p.311]]
{NB: the jamming thoughts must be unconscious or something, because of the
hardly-thought claim just before.}
It was difficult to (* concentrate.*) Someone had turned the dials up and the
whole room was writhing with (* CLOUDS OF STEAM, SWIRLING IN HIS EYES, HIS
MIND.*)
[[Text: source p.129]]
{Mixing with COGNIZING AS SEEING.}
{NB: zeugma-avoidance on steam swirling.}
Meanwhile, (* HE WOULD LOCK LYN AWAY WITH THE NOTEBOOKS *) and
get down to a little planning on the book itself.
[[Text: source p.118]]
{Mixing with metonymy of OBJECT FOR IDEA.}
{NB: zeugma-avoidance on ``lock away'' (?)}
Every time he tried, (* his mind glazed over *) or
(* FILLED WITH STUPID THINGS LIKE HOT CROSS BUNS OR WEDDING CAKES.*)
[[Text: source p.32]]
{Mixing with metonymy of OBJECT FOR IDEA.}
For three kindly years he had let this landscape dwindle, (* SHUT OUT ALL THE
MEMORIES,*) built new ones with his wife.
[[Text: source p.32]]
... and (* THERE FLOWED INTO HIM, AS INTO A CLEAR VESSEL, A SUDDEN SENSE OF *)
all the agony and helpless suffering of created things.
[[Text: source p.584]]
Gerard allowed himself to be moved by this and (* STOWED IT AWAY IN
HIS MIND FOR LATER INSPECTION.*)
[[Text: source p.582]]
... the script somehow, like a sinister hieroglyph revealed by torchlight in a
tomb, (* TOOK HIM *..) back many more years, to Oxford, (..* TO SOMETHING,
SOME EVENT, SOME FEELING, TOO DEEP NOW TO BE UNCOVERED, FAR AWAY IN THE DARK
DEPTHS OF HIS MIND, ... Even as GERARD WAS RETURNED TO HIS PRESENT SELF *) he
felt a sick terror at the sight, ...
[[Text: source p.580]]
{NB: Compilcated mixing with a metaphor of time as space.}
It was the writing on the envelope which, (* DARTING ITS MESSAGE INTO HIS
UNCONSCIOUS MIND,*) had produced this strange shock,
[[Text: source p.580]]
He had not intended to speak to Rose of a house, though
(* THE IDEA HAD BEEN FOR A SHORT TIME IN HIS HEAD.*)
[[Text: source p.574]]
(* WHAT WAS NOW SEEPING INTO HER TROUBLED CONSCIOUSNESS LIKE A DARK DYE WAS THE
THOUGHT THAT *) Crimond could not thus belong to the past.
[[Text: source p.571]]
He also, in the presence of these images, asked himself, (* RETRIEVING IT NOW
FROM THE DEPTHS OF MEMORY,*) whether ...
[[Text: source p.526]]
(* VAST TRACTS OF HIS SOUL NO LONGER EXISTED, HIS SOUL WAS DEVASTATED AND LAID
WASTE, HE WAS FUNCTIONING WITH HALF A SOUL, WITH A FRACTION OF A SOUL, LIKE A
MAN WITH ONE LUNG.*)
[[Text: source p.524]]
In fact, in spite of his self-laceration, a ritual in which
he indulged at intervals, the priest (* FELT, IN A YET DEEPER DEEP SELF, A
SENSE OF SECURITY AND PEACE. BEHIND DOUBT THERE WAS TRUTH, AND BEHIND THE DOUBT
THAT DOUBTED THAT TRUTH THERE WAS TRUTH...*)
[[Text: source p.517]]
Where one could see no way to mend matters, (* ONE MUST JUST KEEP
THEM IN MIND, SURROUND THEM WITH GOOD REFLECTIONS.*)
[[Text: source p.492]]
She had been, with him, self-absorbed, looking after herself, learning a
religious mythology (* AS SHE DISCOVERED HITHERTO UNKNOWN REGIONS OF HER OWN
SOUL.*)
[[Text: source p.490]]
The priest had talked much to her about prayer, how it was simply a quietness,
an attentive waiting, (* A SPACE MADE FOR THE PRESENCE OF GOD. Tamar felt that
SHE MADE THE SPACE AND SOMETHING FILLED IT.*)
[[Text: source p.490]]
Here however (* ROSE'S DEEP BASE OF SANITY *) eventually prevailed, ...
[[Text: source p.478]]
(* HOWEVER ALL THESE TEMPTING AND BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS, THESE DEEP TENDER
DESIRES, RAN HARSHLY UP AGAINST JENKIN'S EQUALLY DEEP RESOLUTION *) about the
necessity of an absolute departure; ...
[[Text: source p.449]]
Then (* A TERRIBLE THOUGHT APPEARED IN GULLIVER'S MIND. He ought to give this
man his overcoat! THE THOUGHT, APPEARING SUDDENLY, SEEMED LIKE
SOMETHING PLANTED BY AN ALIEN FORCE.*)
[[Text: source p.432]]
(* THIS DETAIL,*..) utterly revolting to Duncan, had with the years (..*
GATHERED ALL KINDS OF FILTH IN HIS MIND,*..) and he had no intention of (..*
GIVING IT MORE power and FORM BY PUTTING IT INTO JEAN'S MIND.*)
[[Text: source p.424]]
(* THE CONDENSED MASS OF ALL HER RECENT THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS WAS
EXPLODING INSIDE HER HEAD.*) She was beyond logic and contradictory things
could be true.
[[Text: source p.375]]
(* THE EXCITEMENTS, PLEASANT, UNPLEASANT, INTERESTING, STIRRED UP IN
GERARD'S MIND BY CRIMOND'S ANTICS, WERE CURIOUSLY MIXING WITH HIS THOUGHTS, OR
MORE EVIDENTLY HIS FEELINGS, ABOUT JENKIN.*)
[[Text: source p.354]]
Jean allowed all sorts of (* ORDINARY HAPPY THOUGHTS,*..) which she had
carefully and dutifully inhibited, (..* TO COME OUT OF THEIR SECLUSION AND
THRONG GAILY IN HER HEAD.*)
[[Text: source p.349]]
(* THIS POSSIBILITY OF A DAMAGING BREACH WAS INSTANTLY TRANSFORMED IN HIS MIND
INTO THE IMAGE OF JENKIN SOMEHOW DEFECTING TO CRIMOND.*)
[[Text: source p.222]]
(* ALCOHOL CAN OPEN THE DARK GATES OF THE UNCONSCIOUS AND THROUGH THIS ORIFICE
THERE FLOODED UPON LILY ... A PHANTOM HOST OF MEMORIES OF HER CATHOLIC
MOTHER,*) ...
[[Text: source p.203]]
He was not exactly a father-figure. (* TAMAR KEPT THE PLACE OF HER UNKNOWN
FATHER PIOUSLY EMPTY.*)
[[Text: source p.152]]
There is no need for you to run the risk of meeting me on the stairs. 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]]
{NB also: last phrase implies that the idea of mental intruding has been raised before.}
Gunnar was being objective again. `This much I suppose I learnt from analysis,
to (* PULL EMOTION, FEELING, WHAT LIES DEEPER AND MORE AWFULLY CLOSE TO THE
LIVE HEART, OUT INTO THE OPEN A BIT MORE;*) to apprehend connections and let (*
TERRIBLE THINGS OWN THEIR FEELINGS *) without disguise....'
[[Text: source p.267]]
When I telephoned her on Thursday evening I had heard that (* LONELY ECHO FROM
THE PRIVATE INWARDNESS *) of her sad existence.
[[Text: source p.244]]
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]]
Much research has focused on the process of (* THOUGHT SUPPRESSION---that
is, on the the ways we try to BANISH UNWANTED THOUGHTS *)---and on the
consequences of suppression.
[[Text: source]]
{could possibly be MIND WITHIN PHYSICAL SPACE, but put here because of context
of article}
I wish Mrs James wouldn't come to the house. Whenever she does she always
(* INTRODUCES SOME NEW-FANGLED RUBBISH INTO CARRIE'S HEAD.*)
[[Text: source]]
... It's like, (* IN THE BACK OF MIND SOMEWHERE I THINK I KNEW
THAT,*) but I didn't want to cop to it in the moment. ...
[[Text: source]]
I shouldn't even have allowed (* THE THOUGHT TO ENTER MY HEAD,*) because the
minute it (* occurred to me *) she seemed to (* read my mind.*)
[[Text: source]]
(* HIS MIND WAS FULL OF CHERYL AND HER DESPERATE DEFENCE.*)
[[Text: source]]
{METONYMY: THING-FOR-IDEA}
... [the statue] no longer resembled Senta. Perhaps she never had and the
likeness (* LAY IN HIS ALL TOO WILLING IMAGINATION.*)
[[Text: source]]
Now his (* MIND HAD CURIOUSLY BLANKED, EMPTIED BUT FOR THE PRESENCE IN IT OF A
SMALL BLACK SCOTTIE DOG *) ...
[[Text: source]]
{METONYMY: THING-FOR-IDEA}
{mixed metaphor, w. COGNIZING AS SEEING}
He hadn't asked her [what she meant] because what she said (* HAD TAKEN A WHILE
TO SINK IN. IT SURFACED STARKLY NOW.*)
[[Text: source]]
{NB: discourse coherence between SINK IN and SURFACE.}
But returning to his car, he thought what confusion deception causes, what
(* A MUDDLE IN THE MIND, so that FACTS ARE MIXED UP WITH TRUTH and TRUTH
DISTORTED.*)
[[Text: source]]
(* WITH THESE IDEAS UNPLEASANTLY OCCUPYING HIS MIND,*) ...
[[Text: source]]
He had to (* RID HIS MIND OF THESE SEVERAL OBSESSIONS, THESE PEGS FROM WHICH
TERRORS HUNG: the sight of a dog, a knife, a tube station even.*) He had to (*
DISPEL ALL THAT AND THINK *) of their future, ...
[[Text: source]]
(* HE SHUT OUT THE AWFUL THOUGHTS.*)
[[Text: source]]
Wasn't it rather that he wasn't sure she hadn't done it that (* THERE STILL
LINGERED SOMEWHERE THE GERM OF A FEAR THAT *) she actually had done it?
[[Text: source]]
(* Philip said to himself, it's obviously not Arnham, you know it's not,
... The only thing to do now was to (* PUT IT ALL OUT OF YOUR HEAD *) *) ...
[[Text: source]]
{NB: nesting within internal speech}
... he lay thinking about Senta, relieved and happy because (* IN THE REGION OF
HIS MIND WHICH WAS THE PLACE FOR SENTA AND HIMSELF HE HAD AT THIS MOMENT NO
WORRIES AND NO FEARS.*) But (* as if his consciousness didn't want him to be
without anxieties, it allowed CHERYL TO CREEP INTO IT.*)
[[Text: source]]
{METONYMY: THING-FOR-IDEA}
(* SECOND THOUGHTS, SURFACING as he drove *) ... made him confront
this proposition again.
[[Text: source]]
... and (* into the deep peace *..) of the aftermath of love-making, when he
should have been most free of care, (..* INTRUDED this silent staring threat.
For it did seem to stare at him, it did seem almost a living thing, which
ENTERED HIS CONSCIOUSNESS when least welcome and stood there, arms folded,
exercising its menace.*)
[[Text: source]]
(* HE KNEW THAT THIS WAS TRUE ON ONE LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS, BUT ON ANOTHER
which seemed most to affect his emotions, he had solved his problems, put an
end to misery, won her.*)
[[Text: source]]
{mixed metaphor, with IDEAS AS MODELS}
[Philip] had lost interest in everything and everybody but Senta. (* SHE
OCCUPIED HIS MIND, SHE HAD MOVED INTO HIS MIND AND LAIN DOWN ON THE BED FROM
WHERE SHE STARED INTO HIS INNER EYES.*)
[[Text: source]]
{METONYMY: THING-FOR-IDEA}
And he thought of her all the time. (* SHE OCCUPIED HIS THOUGHTS *) on his long
drives, ... Sometimes, (* INSIDE HIS HEAD, HE TALKED TO HER.*)
[[Text: source]]
{METONYMY: THING-FOR-IDEA, in SHE OCCUPIED HIS THOUGHTS.}
... but nevertheless, (* DEEP IN HIS OWN MIND, HE DOUBTED.*)
[[Text: source]]
the niggling (* CONCERN which now wormed back INTO HIS MIND:*)
[[Text: source]]
(* [Cheryl's] name and a kind of vague picture of her HAD BEEN IN HIS MIND,*)
[[Text: source]]
The name [Rebecca Neave] for a second meant nothing to Philip, so securely had
he (* BANISHED IT FROM HIS MIND,*) hating to dwell on these things. (* THE
IDENTITY OF ITS POSSESSOR CAME BACK TO HIM *) uneasily ... [NP] ...But this
phobia of his was real enough and sometimes it extended to the human beings (*
WHO ALLOWED VIOLENCE TO OCCUPY THEIR MINDS.*)
[[Text: source]]
I conclude then that these expression or symbolic words get their feeling
of being peculiarly fitting from the (* OTHER WORDS sharing the morpheme which
support them IN THE BACKGROUND OF THE MIND.*)
... [several pages] ...
[O]ur words commonly take meaning through the influence of (*
OTHER WORDS WHICH WE MAY NEVER THINK OF BUT WHICH IN THE BACK OF THE MIND
CO-OPERATE *) in controlling them.
[[Text: source]]
{NB: clear that the words in the back(ground) of the mind are unconscious ---
clear link between the 2 pages; see file.}
(* Jim had a girlfriend! That's all that seemed to GO THROUGH MY MIND *)
during the next few minutes.
[[Text: source]]
Everything seemed to work out okay from the word go [in the new job].
(* UNDERNEATH THOUGH, I WAS STILL A LITTLE UNSURE OF MYSELF.*)
[[Text: source]]
... (* CRITICALLY ASSESSING the [dress I was wearing] all over again IN MY
MIND.*)
[[Text: source]]
(* That, I HAD NO DOUBT IN MY MIND, would be Jim from along the hall.*)
[[Text: source]]
`We'll get married,' I longed to hear him say, but (* IT STAYED IN MY
IMAGINATION.*
[[Text: source]]
He had shaken his head, to (* DISMISS THE DOUBTS I HAD ATTEMPTED TO PUT
THERE.*)
[[Text: source]]
`There's Cassie,' he reminded us both, as if I should feel as bad as he
did about betraying her. How I longed to (* KISS SUCH THOUGHTS RIGHT OUT OF HIS
SKULL.*) He had to forget her, especially now.
[[Text: source]]
... it had begun to (* SEEP INTO MY CONSCIOUSNESS THAT *) he looked
uncomfortable.
[[Text: source]]
She smiled back through the intensifying pain [of childbirth], (* HER HEAD FULL
OF IMAGES *) of [her former boyfriend] Tom and his sad emaciated body.
[[Text: source]]
[Sharon] was aware of how they felt: she tried to appease them, persuade
them she was completely happy, but was met with a wall of stony faced silence.
They were not prepared to discuss the situation: (* THEIR EYES --- AND MINDS
--- REMAINED FIRMLY CLOSED.*..)
[NP] One day (..* THEY WOULD OPEN *) and he would be gone: back to the hole
from which he had crawled.
[NP] (* DEEP DOWN SHARON UNDERSTOOD.*)
[[Text: source]]
{NB: zeugma-avoidance, esp. in view of the ``THEY''.}
... (* Why the sudden irrational change? Did he not love her? [IDEAS AS
INTERNAL UTTERANCES]*..) ...
She fumbled nervously; (..* if only she could (* FIND THE KEY TO OPEN THE DOOR
OF HIS MIND, UNLOCK THE LOGIC,*) discover the real reasons for this sudden
incomprehensible change. What was it really about? Stop panicking and think
rationally.*)
[[Text: source]]
{NB: NESTING OF METAPHOR}
(* MY MIND AVOIDED THE KNOWLEDGE THAT LAY DEEP INSIDE ME.*) It would be easy
... to fall in love with this lovely man.
[[Text: source]]
As soon as (* THAT THOUGHT SURFACED *) I attempted to reject it. It was
too daring, and yet (* I recaptured that moment when *) our eyes locked, and I
felt weak, silly, happy.
[[Text: source]]
Perhaps if I chose the dress ... I'd get more in the mood for a wedding. MY
WEDDING [u.c. in orig]. (* COULDN'T I GET THAT INTO MY SKULL?*)
[[Text: source]]
It honestly never (* ENTERED MY HEAD *) that ...
[[Speech: source]]
But my mother (* GOT IT IN HER MIND *) that we had to have a better
dress. (* We'd show them.*)
[[Text: source]]
(* SENTIMENTS BLEW THROUGH HER FROM THE TELEVISION *) and she voiced them and
then (* THEY LEFT.*) Her own feelings were unhinged and terrible, (* TUFTS OF
WIND, AND THEY TOO INHABITED MY MOTHER AND THEN LEFT,*..) just as completely,
(..* SWEEPING HER EMPTY AND CLEAN AS NEW PAPER.*)
[[Text: source]]
We sat at the kitchen table with the night quiet and the highway outside and my
own(* THOUGHTS RUNNING THEIR COURSE *) ...
[[Text: source]]
I believed her that day and nothing exactly changed. She watched, waiting.
I willed myself absolutely still but what had been natural (* I NOW FORCED FROM
MEMORY.*) ... Her message, though, left me still on the outside, but (* FELL
DEEP AND STAYED.*)
[[Text: source]]
I had fasts written down, a line for each day on the cardboard insides of
school notebooks. But (* SUPERSTITION, DEEP AS IT RAN,*) hadn't gotten me any
closer to him.
[[Text: source]]
(*A SUDDEN IMAGE INTRUDED.*)
[[Text: source]]
In the tradition of classic stars like Hedy Lamarr from the Hollywood studio
era, (* RAQUEL EXISTS IN OUR MINDS AS AN ISOLATED, CHARISMATIC BEING.*)
[[Text: source]]
{METONYMY: THING FOR IDEA}
It is possible to imagine (* A MIND WHICH CONTAINS CONTRARIES: IN WHICH THE
MOST DEEP-SEATED DESIRES ARE LOCKED IN CONFLICT.*) My father, for example, who
both wished to keep me, and wished me to be free. ... [T]he effect of (* THESE
CONTRADICTIONS RUBBING TOGETHER *) daily, nightly, was to (* PRODUCE A POISON
*) of paralysing power.
[[Text: source]]
I cannot (* GATHER MY TUMULTUOUS THOUGHTS INTO ANY SORT OF ORDER.*) The
effects of these revelations upon the church ... Our future in the Prophets'
household ... The Prophet's own future ... (* CIRCLE SICKENINGLY IN MY HEAD,*)
each question leading only to further questions.
[[Text: source]]
{METONYMY: THING FOR IDEA}
They know it is not impossible. (* IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN IN SOME OF THEIR MINDS.*)
[[Text: source]]
I am not with child. There can be (* NO DOUBT LEFT IN MY MIND *) that this
is my monthly women's courses.
[[Text: source]]
I know (* THE SAME THOUGHT WAS IN BOTH OUR HEADS.*)
[[Text: source]]
Although (* IT HAD BEEN IN MY MIND TO OFFER,*) I had certainly not
intended to do so that night; ...
[[Text: source]]
(* I MUST TURN MY THOUGHTS FORWARD, AWAY FROM THIS SAD PAIN.*) Let me
imagine; let me dare to imagine, now, the outcome. That I may feel the child
quicken in my belly, ...
[[Text: source]]
{intimate combination of MIND AS PHYSICAL SPACE with a spatial metaphor for time}
But I believe I could welcome the thought of such approaching danger, could I
but (* conquer my doubt.*) This is my (* most pressing fear *)---that doubt
about the first origin of my dream. (* COULD IT NOT HAVE BEEN PLACED IN MY
THOUGHTS *) as easily by Satan as by God?
[[Text: source]]
{MIXING}
I see the earth. When I bend, I see small moist grains sticking ...
[NP] (* MY MIND IS FILLED WITH THE GRAIN OF EARTH,*) I cannot move.
[[Text: source]]
{?? METONYMY: THING FOR IDEA. N.B. the metaphorical notion of the heavy
earth literally weighing her down.}
The Prophet (* HIMSELF INTRUDES INTO MY THOUGHTS *) increasingly. ... [NP] ...
Two incidents particularly have (* STAYED IN MY MIND,*) this week, and lead me
to puzzle over his beliefs and intentions.
[[Text: source]]
{METONYMY: THING FOR IDEA; N.B. in Prophet case w have the flavour of the
Prophet deliberately intruding}
I could not sleep that night, although there were no thoughts that kept me
awake. No plots, no plans, no fears that I can name. Rather, (* A DULLNESS.*..)
A kind of (..* DARKNESS INSIDE MYSELF.*)
[[Text: source]]
There is a silence while he still looks at me. I cannot tell what is (* IN
HIS MIND.*)
[[Text: source]]
It is the apprehension of these two, not easily reconciled, (* CONCEPTS, HELD
TOGETHER IN THE METAPHOR AND CONSEQUENTLY HELD TOGETHER IN THE MIND,*) that I
want to evike when I speak of the double semantic relation ... of metaphors.
[[Text: source]]
These unconscious activities (* UNDERLIE OUR CONSCIOUS THOUGHTS,*..) and the
latter are but a taming, censoring, and making reasonable [of] the (..*
WELL-SPRINGS *) of mental activity. {In a discussion of Freud.]
[[Text: source]]
{mixed metaphor}
She felt light-headed, sweaty and short of breath. (* HER HEAD SWAM WITH A
THOUSAND THOUGHTS:*) she'd have to run the gauntlet of ...
[[Text:
source p.34]]
The thing that (* STICKS IN MY MIND IS ... I CAN'T GET IT OUT OF MY MIND.*)
[Speech: said by Saskia Barnden, 30apr95]
[People would enjoy life more] if they didn't have (* A CONCERN AT THE BACK OF
THEIR MINDS *) [about dying with dignity].
[[Speech: source]]
... (* REACHING BACK INTO MY MEMORY *) ...
[[Speech: source]]
Perhaps (* SOMEWHERE IN THE BACK OF [his] BRAIN THERE RAN A MURMUR *) telling
him that ...
[[Text: source]]
{mixing with IDEAS AS INTERNAL UTTERANCES}
(* THE MEMORY HAMMERED IN HIS HEAD *) of the dreadful phone call ...
[[Text: source]]
... the enormity [of the lottery win] (* SLOWLY ENTERED THEIR STILL UNADJUSTED
MINDS *) ...
[[Speech: source]]
I was (* THINKING AT THE BACK OF MY MIND *) that ...
[[Speech: source]]
It seems to me (* IN SOME DARK RECESS OF MY MIND *) that ...
[[Speech: source]]
[In certain circumstances] (* THOUGHTS CROWD INTO MY MIND *) as easily as you
could wish. (* WHENCE AND HOW DO THEY COME?*) I do not know and I have nothing
to do with it. Those which please me (* I KEEP IN MY HEAD *) and hum them; ...
[[Text: source p.423]]
(Curiously, I did actually forget my trapped surface
[a mathematical construct], but that is not (* AT THE LEVEL *) that I mean. (*
THE IDEA BROKE THROUGH INTO CONSCIOUSNESS *) for long enough for it to leave a
lasting impression.) The `aesthetic' rejection that I am referring to might, I
am supposing, be such as to forbid unappealing (* IDEAS TO REACH ANY VERY
APPRECIABLY PERMANENT LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS *) at all.
[[Text: source p.422]]
I began (* GOING THROUGH IN MY MIND *..) all the various things that had
happened to me during the day, in an attempt to (..* FIND *) what it was that
had caused this elation. ... I finally (* BROUGHT TO MIND THE THOUGHT *) that
I had had while crossing the street --- a thought which had momentarily elated
me by providing the solution to the problem that had been (* MILLING AROUND AT
THE BACK OF MY HEAD! *)
[[Text: source p.420]]
... [a certain] fact was (* ON THE BACK OF MY MIND *) ...
[[Speech: source]]
`... Dynamite is ... our best method. ... It expands; it only destroys because
it broadens; even so, (* THOUGHT ONLY DESTROYS BECAUSE IT BROADENS. A MAN'S
BRAIN IS A BOMB,*..)' he cried out, ... `(..* MY BRAIN FEELS LIKE A BOMB,*..)
night and day. (..* IT MUST EXPAND! IT MUST EXPAND! A MAN'S BRAIN MUST EXPAND,
IF IT BREAKS UP THE UNIVERSE.*)'
[[Text: source p.64-5]]
{NB: zeugma-avoidance -- real vs. mental broadening}
In all the (* TORRENT OF HIS THOUGHT *) there were two (* THOUGHTS THAT
NEVER CROSSED HIS MIND.*) First, it never (* occurred *) to him to doubt that
...
There was a second (* THOUGHT THAT NEVER CAME TO HIM.*) It never (*
occurred *) to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy.
[[Text: source p.63]]
{NB: nesting}
... this great enemy of mankind [i.e., President Sunday], (* WHOSE VERY
INTELLECT WAS A TORTURE-CHAMBER.*)
[[Text: source p.63]]
{weird example}
He fell to fighting again with a supernatural (* levity,*) ... (* HIS
THOUGHTS ROSE HIGHER AND HIGHER *) with the rising roar of the [approaching]
train, ...
[[Text: source p.118]]
{NB: but perhaps the thoughts are metonymic for feelings}
{NB: coherence -- levity/rose}
{NB: zeugma-avoidance -- thoughts-rose/roar-rose}
(* UPPERMOST IN THE MAJORITY OF MPs' MINDS *) [was the coming debate on
Europe].
[[Speech: source]]
{said by presenter}
"I was in Scouts for seven years and it (* NEVER ENTERED MY MIND THAT *) they
could exclude people," said Welsh's father, ...
[[Text: source]]
Ben's fiancee (* HARBORS *) an intense spiritual bent, which only SHARPENS
THE HOSTILITY of his two daughters, ...
[[Text: source]]
A statewide poll found that (* VAGUE MEMORIES *...) of her husband's
financial improprieties still (...* STICK IN PEOPLE'S MINDS.*)
[[Text: source]]
... (* AT THE VERY BACK OF MY MIND *) ...
[[Speech: source]]
... all the time (* I WAS THINKING AT THE BACK OF MY MIND *) that ...
[[Speech: source]]
... (* THINGS ENTER[ING] THEIR CONSCIOUSNESS FROM THE WORLD OR FROM THEIR MEMORY.*)
[[Speech: source]]
.... it is faithfully representing (* THE CONTRADICTION IN THE ELECTORATE'S
MIND.*)
[[Text: source]]
"But nobody's home Saturday night, and (* WE'VE ALL PUT THE SHOW OUT OF OUR
MINDS.*)"
[[Text: source]]
Kids ... write to ask if he feels scared. He tells them, "Yes, (* IT'S
ALWAYS AT THE BACK OF MY MIND.*) I told one kid that I joined the army to pay
my way through school and I said I might not make it through --- but I tell
them I live in hope."
[[Text: source]]
They were engaged three days before he was sent to Saudi Arabia. "I'm in
love, (* I can't think about anything else,*)" HE SAYS. "(* I FEEL TOTALLY
EMPTY.*) I live in a hole in the ground and the only thing that helps me to
pass the time is her letters," he says.
[[Text: source]]
His (* DEEPER CONCERN *) was to reverse the damage Vietnam had done to
the Army's morale and the country's self-esteem. After serving two
tours in that quagmire, he emerged with scars to match his war medals.
[[Text: source]]
Part of the problem was tactical, part political. (* AT THE BACK OF HIS MIND
HE WONDERED,*) "How long would the world stand by and watch the United States
pound the living hell out of Iraq without saying, 'Wait a minute--enough is
enough'."
[[Text: source]]
Don't let (* GRIEVANCES PILE UP *...) --- you run the risk that they may
(...* FLOOD OUT *) later over some trivial incident.
[[Text: source]]
{NB: most of passage is in upper case in the file}
Give her the benefit of the doubt, but if time goes by and you still feel she
has a (* DEEP-SEATED RESENTMENT *) toward you, it would be wise to look for
someone who will offer you more support.
[[Text: source]]
{NB: most of passage is in upper case in the file}
Through the gift of awe our children go out into the world in excited
anticipation of what they might find there. Awe over natural beauty gives them
(* A KIND OF HARBOR TO RETURN TO *) when life's obstacles seem overwhelming.
Life's storms could not (* UNDERMINE HIS CORE OF FAITH IN HIMSELF,*) at least
not for long.
[[Text: source]]
{NB: most of passage is in upper case in the file}
As I prowled the toy store in search of something spectacular to give my
daughter, (* THOUGHTS OF MY FRIEND JOE CAME TO MIND.*)
[[Text: source]]
{NB: most of passage is in upper case in the file}
"this was (* FIXED IN MY MIND *)" {there may have been a "firmly" before "fixed".}
[[Speech: source]]
I had (* THE Man of La Mancha IN MY MIND.*)
[[Speech: source]]
{or may be METONYMY}
" ... in their crystal balls, (* IN THEIR MINDS, BUSINESS LEADERS THINK THAT *) ..."
[[Speech: source]]
{wording is approximate and by memory}
"It has [had?] been (* AT THE BACK OF HIS MIND, IT MOVED TO THE FRONT, WENT ON TO
HIS HAND [or PEN], AND OUT ON THE PAGES.*) "
[[Speech: source]]
{wording is approximate and by memory}
You try to (* PUSH IT IN THE BACK OF YOUR MIND.*)
[[Speech: source]]
{it = unpleasant experience in Gulf War.}
{``in'': clear that ``into'' was meant.}
(* [THOUGHTS] ON OR BELOW THE SENSORY SURFACE *)
...
thoughts as ``things (* ACTIVE AGAINST A BACKGROUND OF CONSCIOUSNESS *)''
[[Text: source]]
anything (* HIDING IN THE BACKGROUND *) is not mental activity
[[Text: source]]
a body moves in empty space by its own momentum as when
(* OUR THOUGHTS WANDER AT THEIR OWN SWEET WILL *)
[[Text: source]]
{the unconscious viewed as "deep sea caves" and "underwater caverns".}
[[Text: source]]
Every extreme attitude is (* A FLIGHT FROM THE SELF *)
[[Text: source]]
... (* IN THE BACK OF OUR HEAD *) we should be thinking about multilingual issues ...
[[Speech: source]]
{NB: speaker placed his finger on his right temple}
"I wouldn't want documents hanging around which might (* POLLUTE FUTURE SUBJECTS' MINDS*)"
[[Speech: source]]
no, there's (* NO QUERY IN MY MIND *) about anything.
[[Speech: source]]
`What (*CAME TO THE FRONT *) was ...'
[[Speech: source]]
{in a context making clear that speaker was
talking about considerations in his mind}
"(* AT ONE LEVEL, I KNEW *) all the symptoms of hepatitis." {Speaker was talking
about how he had had all the symptoms of hepatitis and how he knew all the
symptoms of hepatitis, but it had taken him three weeks to "conclude" that he
had hepatitis.}
[[Speech: source]]
(* STIRRING UP LAYERS OF MUD-ENCRUSTED MEMORIES.*)
[[Speech: source]]
"I want to thank you all from the (* WARMEST SECTION OF MY HEART AND MEMORY.*)"
[[Text: source]]
So she (* ENTOMBS ALL NEGATIVE THOUGHTS *) and deludes herself into believing
her existence is everything she wants it to be.
[[Text: source]]
For twenty years, (* SHE BURIED THE IMAGE *) of his bashing in eight-year-old
Susan Nason's head with a rock. (* THAT IMAGE REMAINED LOCKED AWAY *) until a
quizzical look in her own daughter's eyes reminded her of Susan's final
expression and caused the horrible memory to (* FLOOD INTO COGNIZANCE.*)
[[Text: source]]
"(* INFORMATION IS FILTERED AND CAN BE CENSORED *) prior to (* ITS ARRIVAL
IN OUR AWARENESS *) ...," says Daniel Goleman, ... "This (* MENTAL CENSORSHIP
*) is possible because (* THE BRAIN CONTINUOUSLY SORTS THROUGH *...) an immense
amount of irrelevant (...* INFORMATION *), (* LETTING INTO AWARENESS ONLY A
NARROW SLICE *) of what is available."
[[Text: source]]
(* IN THE FAR REACHES OF HER MIND *), Anne knew Kyle was having an affair,
. Not until eight months had passed and she finally checked the phone bill
did (* ANNE CONFRONT THE REALITY *) of her husband's deception.
[[Text: source]]
{NB: second marked bit is not an example of MIND AS PHYSICAL SPACE, but is
included because of the coherence issue with the first marked bit.}
(* DEEP DOWN, though, THE THOUGHT *...) that something serious might be wrong
with her physically was simply too scary to face.
[[Text: source]]
Once the problem has been acknowledged, keeping a log of any related thoughts
or behavior can be an effective way to ensure that (* DENIAL DOESN'T CREEP BACK
IN *). Snapping one's wrist with a large rubber band when undesirable (*
NOTIONS COME TO MIND *) can help (* RECHANNEL THINKING.*)
[[Text: source]]
"If a wife has had a sense that something is deeply wrong in her marriage,"
says Rubin, "she feels inadequate, unfeminine, and may even have some (*
FLEETING THOUGHT *) that her husband might be interested in men. But she (*
QUICKLY PUSHES THAT RIGHT OUT OF HER MIND.*) We all manage not to
know what we know when (* FACING *) it is too dangerous."
[[Text: source]]
... my first reaction is one of (* DEEP CONCERN.*)
[[Text: source]]
With this (* IN MIND,*) the Children's Computer Workshop (CCW), a division of
the Children's Television Workshop, is working on educational software with
action-game formats and nonviolent themes.
[[Text: source]]
This refers to the (* INTAKE OF INFORMATION *) from several sources simultaneously, in contrast with serial processing in which the (* MIND TAKES IN INFORMATION *) from one source at a time.