Jane Smiley, Duplicate Keys

London: Flamingo (Harper Collins), 1996


p.68:
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.

p.84:
What she yearned to do upon reacing her place was to call Jim Ellis and to cry and cry and cry, to beg for his help, to plead that he leave Mariana, to insist on a return to three years before. Even while (* ROLLING THESE DESIRES THROUGH HER MIND,*) she recognized them as her habitual response to trouble.

p.158:
[NP] She thought of Henry, she thought of Susan, she thought of Rya and Jim and Noah and Ray and Jeff. She carried a little cloud of thought in her head from stack to stack and floor to floor [of the library where she worked] and she hummed.

p.206:
[NP] It was (* ONLY MOMENTUM THAT KEPT Alice's GEARS OF THOUGHT AND ANALYSIS GRINDING PAST *) any practical application.

p.206-7:
What she wanted was to have her life arranged by Susan for months and years to come. 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,*) and adjustment to the facts, while curiously physical, hadn't been especially hard.

p.265:
(* 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]

p.265:
[NP] Then, (* LIKE AN INEVITABLE RISING TIDE, CAME HER SELF-DISGUST AT *) being stuck [on the ledge]. Forever she had been stuck in one thing or another. She could never get past being stuck! What was wrong with her? And then, without thinking, (* she was struck by the absurdity *) of being about to die, ...