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COGNIZING AS PHYSICALLY SENSING

(excluding when the sensing is SEEING or when the example is covered by IDEAS AS [INTERNAL or EXTERNAL] UTTERANCES)

Her main instinct is to grab hold of Selena, probably literally, and ask her what the fuck she thinks she's doing; but (* some other instinct, further back and twisting restlessly, tells her that *) the moment she says this out loud -- to Selena, or to Holly or Becca -- nothing will never be the same again. (* SHE CAN SMELL THE POISON SMOKE AS EVERYTHING THEY'VE GOT ROARS INTO FLAME.*)
[[Text: source, p.380]]
{Follows a tight mix of IDEAS AS PERSONS OR OTHER ANIMATE BEINGS with IDEAS AS INTERNAL UTTERANCES.}

I went for long walks ... wandering through the city for hours in something like a trance, (* LISTENING FOR DELICATE LITTLE NOISES in the corners of my mind.*) ...
[[Text: p.242]]
{mixed with MIND AS PHYSICAL SPACE;
NB it replaces a use of IDEAS AS PHYSICAL OBJECTS in a closely preceding segment}

(* WHAT ALARM BELL DID THOSE WORDS JUST RING? *)
[[Text: source, p.157]]

(* I CAN HEAR *) freezer doors open all over the country as people give it a go.
[[Speech: source]]
{Imagining something happening as actually hearing a potentially hearable aspect of it.}