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At the same time, (* in a cool untouched part of her mind, she sees the moon. She feels the shimmer of what it might look like in their own private midnight.*)
[[Text: source, p.149]]
{First paragraph uses IDEAS AS INTERNAL UTTERANCES.
Second switches immediately to a mix of COGNIZING AS SEEING and MIND AS PHYSICAL SPACE.}
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]]
{Tightly mixed with IDEAS AS PERSONS OR OTHER ANIMATE BEINGS.
Also followed immediately by the poison-smoke metaphor, an example of COGNIZING AS
PHYSICALLY SENSING.}
When the first installment [of money in payment for a publicity task]
appeared in her bank account, Dolly's relief was so immense that it
almost (* obliterated THE TINY ANXIOUS MUTTERING VOICE INSIDE
HER: Your client is a genocidal dictator. *) (* Dolly had worked
with shitheads before, God knew; if she didn't take this job someone
else would snap it up; being a publicist is about not judging your
clients *..) -- these excuses were (..* lined up in formation, ready for
deployment SHOULD THAT SMALL DISSIDENT VOICE PLUCK UP ITS COURAGE TO
SPEAK WITH ANY VOLUME. But lately, Dolly couldn't even HEAR IT.*)
[[Text: source, p.42]]
{NB: mixing with MIND PARTS AS PERSONS or OTHER ANIMATE BEINGS, via a
METONYMY of VOICE FOR PERSON OWNING IT; and mixing with IDEAS
AS PHYSICAL OBJECTS (separately in (a) the *relief ... immense
... obliterated" and (b) "lined up in formation")}
Obstinately, (* THE WORDS FLICKERED OUT OF HIS MIND AS OUT OF A
FOG. "Why didn't the doctor notice it?" *..) [NP] Towards the end of
the service (..* the words stopped flickering and burned steadily.*)
[[Text: source, p.42]]
{NB: mixing with IDEAS AS PHYSICAL OBJECTS}
(* A SNEAKING, MALICIOUS VOICE IN HER SUBCONSCIOUS WHISPERED THAT *) her interest
was simply due to his appearance, ...
[[Text: source, p.37]]
{NB: mixing with MIND PARTS AS PERSONS}
Each time, (* HER FATALISTIC SIDE TOLD HER *) she had no control over her future.
[[Text: source, p.148]]
{NB: mixing with MIND PARTS AS PERSONS}
How dreadful thoughts could be, Lucy (* SAID TO HERSELF,*) overcome that such
a one at such a moment should (* thrust itself into her mind.*)
[[Text:
source, p.42]]
{There is a mental metaphor embedded within the internal utterance.}
(..* Her thoughts slunk away; but not before one of them had sent (* A
CURDLING WHISPER THROUGH HER MIND, `_The tea would taste of blood._'*)
[[Text:
source, p.101]]
{Mixed with IDEAS AS ANIMATE BEINGS and MIND AS PHYSICAL SPACE.}
What had she said, (* Lucy HURRIEDLY ASKED HERSELF, NIPPING OVER HER
LAST WORDS IN HER MIND, ...
[[Text:
source, p.105]]
{Possibly mixed with a view of the words as physical objects.}
(* At the back of her mind,*..) quite uncontrollable, quite
unauthorised, (..* ran beneath these other thoughts THIS THOUGHT: `I am
certainly abject.' *)
[[Text:
source, p.118]]
{Mixed with MIND AS PHYSICAL SPACE}
... (* like a flame the thought was leaping in her brain, `Now what
shall I do if when I look into this [a mirror] I don't see myself but
Vera? It's _accustomed_ to Vera ... [dots in original]' *)
[[Text:
source, p.139]]
{Mixed with MIND AS PHYSICAL SPACE. NB also the embedding of a metaphor
within the thought - the view of the mirror as a person.}
[Lucy is climbing the stairs, with effort.] (* For years and years,
PANTED Lucy -- HER VERY THOUGHTS CAME IN GASPS -- Vera lived up here
winter after winter ... ... If _only, only_ Vera weren't dead! But her mind lived
on -- her mind was in that room, in every littlest thing in it -- *)
[[Text:
source, p.147]]
{Unusual use of a physically-mannered speech verb ("panted") in a
thought report. She is thinking while literally panting and gasping
(this is confirmed by the context -- see the text). At the same time her
thoughts are presumably effortful and (therefore?) effortful. So the
panting and gasping may be both literal and metaphorical (so: a
"twice-meaningful" metaphor). arguably, it's not just that she was
thinking in the time-slices between the pants/gasps. NB also the
embedding of a metaphor within the thought - the view of Vera's mind as
animate.}
(* Why should a thing like that (* [A RHYMING COUPLET] rise now to the surface
of her mind and float round on it, while all the noble verse she had
read and enjoyed, ... , was nowhere to be found, not a shred of it, in
any corner of her brain? [NP] What a brain, THOUGHT Miss Entwhistle,
disgusted, ..., her eyes shut; what a contemptible, anaemic brain,
deserting her like this, only able to throw up to the surface when
stirred, out of all the store of splendid stuff put so assiduously into
it during years and years of life, COUPLETS.*) *) ... (* A last couplet floated
through her brain *) -- her brain seemed to clutch at it[.] (* Now where did
that come from? she ASKED HERSELF distractedly,*)
[[Text:
source, p.228]]
{NB nesting of IDEAS AS INTERNAL UTTERANCES and other metaphorical
elements within cases of IDEAS AS INTERNAL UTTERANCES. E.g., ``Why
should ... corner of her brain'' is a reported thought of Miss E, but this
thought itself casts the idea of the rhyming couplet rising to the
surface of her mind etc.}
and suddenly a thought so horrible leapt afresh to her mind that (* SHE
BLURTED, ALOUD: "Is he sick?"*)
[[Text:
source, p.549]]
{NB This is NOT METAPHORICAL in its use of blurting, but the inclusion of
"aloud" suggests that without that the blurting *could* easily be taken to be internal and
purely mental.}
(* HIS HEART WAS ARGUING THAT *) she'd had very good reasons for
betraying every tenet of their profession ...
[[Text: source, p.532]]
{Mix with MIND PARTS AS PERSONS and MIND AS ANIMATE BEING or LIVING BODY?}
Davies, 43, said: "When Alison texted me telling me we were sisters (* a
tiny part of me thought *) she was joking but (* a bigger part of me THOUGHT:
`Oh my God.'*) [NP] After the initial shock I spoke to Alison and she
explained everything and (* I THOUGHT: `Wow.'*)"
[[Text: source]]
{Mixed with MIND PARTS AS PERSONS.}
"If you thought of this as (* the cabin on a boat,*) (* YOU'D SAY, 'It's
pretty spacious,'*) " Scott said.
[[Text:
source]]
{Not entirely clear whether the YOU'D SAY is literal or metaphorical.}
{Note also the cabin metaphor within the thought.}
Some people go to bed at night (* THINKING: `That was a good day.' *..)
I am one of those who (..* WORRIES and ASKS: `How did I screw up today?'*)
[[Text:
source]]
Above all, he would not be far away and parted from Her. (* Something
stronger than an iron chain bound him to Paris:*) (* AN INNER VOICE
CRIED OUT TO HIM *) to stay.
[[Text:
source p.70]]
I tried to sleep but information drifted past my eyes and (* QUESTIONS
SPOKE *) because I could not shut them off.
[[Text: source p.138]]
{NB: "shut them off": LANGUAGE AS STREAM?}
Again techniques abound to cultivate this "inner climate": "We are not
in a hurry. ... (* WE ASK GENTLE QUESTIONS AS A WAY OF INVITING *) the
feeling to tell us more" ... The comportment of affect tolerance is also
referred to as "receiving" ..., or "(* a welcoming presence*)": "... A
(* welcoming presence *) gives [each feeling] the space to be and breathe,
evolve and transform" ... Thus the therapist's response ... to the
client who complained of "Still all I feel is tense" ... was "OK, so
let's (* WELCOME *) that" ... [EP]
[[Text: source]]
{mixed with IDEAS AS PERSONS or other ANIMATE BEINGS}
(* Attics. Always the places where the secrets are kept, like the dark
bits of the mind. Except the contents of this particular attic would
surprise no one, SHE THOUGHT SCORNFULLY.*)
[[Text: source p.116]]
{NB: mental metaphor embedded in the thought}
(* I'D SAY HE WAS YOUNGER THAN ME *)
[[Speech: source; <jab 4>]]
The doctor was surprised. 'What do I want to talk to her about?' (* HE ASKED
HIMSELF. *)
[[Text: source p.278]]
(* ... A SIDE I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW I HAD REARED ITS CURIOUS HEAD AND WITH A SHAKE
OF IT SAID,*) how sickeningly ostentatious and wasteful. But then both these
(* DISPUTING DEMISPHERES *) fell promptly asleep as soon as I settled my
occasionally fondled but assuredly never abused butt into my seat.
[[Text: source p.299]]
For a moment Rebecca and Bracken stared across the burrow at each other and the
light that seemed to have gone from them shone again, and time was not
important.(* 'Why it's there and always will be', THOUGHT REBECCA, KNOWING IT
WAS TRUE.*)
[[Text: source p.353]]
(* I have to pay attention, SHE WARNED HERSELF. Don't look at Philippe. Don't
look at the back rows [of the courtroom] and the eyes that hate me.*)
[[Text: source p.288]]
The soundtrack of the past five months had been a virtual chant of
`yes' and `trust me, Sara'---the latter spoken so many times by Anthony
that (* IT SETTLED INTO SARA'S BRAIN *) and started to sound like her own
voice.
[[Text: source p.278]]
Sara was too stunned to speak. (* THE QUESTION TAKING SHAPE IN HER
MIND WAS `Do you know who raped you?' *)
[[Text: source p.168]]
(* If only it were that simple, SARA THOUGHT. If only (* her system could rid
itself of the whole experience by just throwing up.*)*)
[[Text: source p.166]]
{nesting of another metaphor of mind within the internal speech}
Sara (* followed the leap her mother's thoughts had made: an accident, another
of my children hurt or in trouble.*)
[[Text: source p.163]]
{possible implicit use of the metaphor}
{NB: combination with MIND WITHIN PHYSICAL SPACE}
(* I'll call her, SHE DECIDED, even if I wake her up. This is important. I have
to tell her everything---about Anthony, about the girl in the bar. Everything.*)
[[Text: source p.161]]
... and then she threw [the letter] in the fireplace. As she struck a match, (* SHE
THOUGHT, This isn't the first time I've (* set this wish on fire and watched it
burn *) ...*)
[[Text: source p.147]]
{Nesting of another metaphor of mind within the internal speech.}
She hoped he wasn't going to quiz her, and (* searched her mind *) for whatever
Cliffs Notes might be (* JOTTED THERE *)---just in case.
[[Text: source p.142]]
Dance music was playing---(* Paula Abdul, SARA THOUGHT,*) although she wasn't
sure---...
[[Text: source p.129]]
(* Don't ask why, SARA TOLD HERSELF---the answer might scare you.*)
[[Text: source p.129]]
(* We're friends, SARA TOLD HERSELF---we can still touch each other like
friends, even though last night we touched like lovers.*)
[[Text: source p.128]]
(* At what point does another person slip into the cracks of your psyche? BELINDA WONDERED. Is there a precise moment? How can someone set up residence in the tunnels of your soul, in those private spaces you've spent years locking everyone out of? Can it happen at the first meeting? Or only after they've sized you up, mapped out the entry points? Or only after you've handed them the keys?*)
These (* thoughts occurred *) to Belinda ...
[[Text: source p.117]]
(* Sometimes solitude feels like a dungeon, SHE THOUGHT.*..)
[[Text: source p.111]]
{NESTING: The subsequent text continues her internal monologue and contains metaphors of mind.}
(* It's a city that has a way of welcoming home its natives, SARA THOUGHT *..)
as she drove to the hospital, glad that she was home, far from Paris and
Anthony, (..* TELLING HERSELF OVER AND OVER---LIKE A MANTRA---THAT *) Mark was
going to be all right.
[[Text: source p.86]]
(* I have to call Anthony, SHE REMINDED HERSELF.*)
[[Text: source p.86]]
She (* knew she had just realized *) something important. (*`I'm turning
into him [Anthony],' SHE THOUGHT.*) She (* remembered *) the day before
... She (* imagined *) the girl naked, her legs spread wide, but it wasn't her
own (* imagination *)---it was Anthony's ...
[[Text: source p.72]]
Sara watched her cross the restaurant and (* THOUGHT, `I should
dislike this woman. I should be jealous of her.'*)
[[Text: source p.55-6]]
... so that within a matter of minutes she'd be (* SAYING, `What color were
his eyes?' or `What was that way he had of smiling that looked so sweet?'*)
[[Text: source p.48]]
The War was all wrong to begin with.
(*`Those Germans,' THOUGHT ALBERT *) gloomily and almost without rancour.
[[Text: source p.156]]
(*`Seems rather as though I'm for it,' THOUGHT TOMMY.*)
[[Text: source p.151]]
(* SHE THOUGHT TO HERSELF with rising vexation:
`What's the old darling up to? ... '*)
[[Text: source p.142]]
(* Sometimes, Tuppence THOUGHT TO HERSELF, it would save time if Miss Minton
just put her hand down on the table to show them all. She was quite incapable
of not telling exactly what was in it.*)
[[Text: source p.131]]
(* HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF:
`Surely he can't be taken in? He can't imagine I'd fall for this stuff?'*)
[[Text: source p.128]]
(*`More than a match for me,' TOMMY THOUGHT. `And there's that confounded
servant, too.'*)
[[Text: source p.127]]
....[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 MIND AS PHYSICAL SPACE}
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 MIND AS PHYSICAL SPACE, and with nested COGNIZING AS SEEING}
(* HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF:*)
`Bletchley. I suppose he's all right. Why shouldn't he be? ... Yes, but he
could have been pretty sure that the child's mother wouldn't stand for the
idea. The threatening note made sure of that. He could afford to urge the
opposite point of view---'
[[Text: source p.112-3]]
Her next step, (* TUPPENCE THOUGHT,*) could be managed easily enough. That
is to say with the connivance of Tommy. She saw exactly how to do it---
[[Text: source p.74]]
`Nerves,' (* SAID TUPPENCE TO HERSELF.*) `Just nerves!'
But had it been nerves? .....
It must have been, (* TUPPENCE THOUGHT,*) a very short conversation. The merest brief exchange of words. ...
The quiet house---the feeling that there was something sinister---something evil ...[dots in text]
`Stick to facts, Mrs. Blenkensop,' (* SAID TUPPENCE STERNLY.*) `And get
on with your job.'
[[Text: source p.60-61]]
{NOTE: Mrs. Blenkensop is an alias Tuppence has adopted, so the last
sentence manifests second-person internal-speech directed at self.}
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 vivid IDEAS AS PHYSICAL OBJECTS}
(*`What a pestilential woman I sound,' THOUGHT Tuppence TO HERSELF.*)
[[Text: source p.46]]
But those are just the physical tricks. The stuff that really (* SPOKE TO
ME *) was about how you can sexually recharge the body by (* recharging the
mind and spirit.*)
(* 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]]
{NB: mixing w. metaphor of question as burning object}
Imagining what my butt would look like in lacy dental floss, my stomach did a
flip. (* Be honest about your limitations, I TOLD MYSELF,*) as I spotted the
most beautiful satin tap pants ...
[[Text: source p.78]]
`... So you've got to (* look around *) and (* ASK, How sexy is the environment? And
how much pressure is there to have sex?*) When the cues are (* seen as *)
pressure, sex is no longer fun. ... ' [quoted from a book]
[[Text: source p.78]]
{NB: collocation with COGNIZING AS SEEING}
After Patrick fell asleep last night, I lay in bed with my heart pounding.
(* I MADE A LIST *) of all the things Patrick and I do together that excite me
--- ...
But (* I HAD TO ASK MYSELF, why, if everything seemed so right, was my sex
drive in neutral?*)
[[Text: source p.78]]
(* `Can these pups really live to be adult?' THEY THINK,*) ...
[[Text: source]]
(* 'Truly the Stone was wise to have bound me to Bracken', THOUGHT BOSWELL,*)
following with something near a rueful grin.
[[Text: source p.619]]
(* I'M THINKING TO MYSELF `I hope this noise doesn't distract the people around
me.'*)
[[Text: source]]
It is still not possible to (* SAY *) with finality exactly what went
wrong, but it cannot be (* DISPUTED *) that ...
[[Text: source]]
{follow source link for justification of inclusion under IDEAS AS INTERNAL UTTERANCES}
... the agencies apparently ignored or minimized the factors that might have
(* TOLD *) them their approach was unlikely to work.
[[Text: source]]
When couples move in together, she says, the housekeeping chores often revert
to women. ``(* THEY THINK, `Why should I do that? If I'm going to give up my
freedom for a man, I want to be married.'*) '
[[Text: source]]
{NB: ``want'' nested within the internal utterance, itself nested within speech
report}
Now she (* knows *) that what she (* wanted *) was `somebody who was really
responsible, ... . (* IN THE BACK OF MY MIND, I THOUGHT, what if something
happened to me? Would I want this person to be left with three kids?*)'
[[Text: source]]
{NB: ``want'' nested within the internal utterance, itself nested within speech report}
... (* the critical issue in their minds was *) ...
[[a: source]]
... (* THE QUESTION IN THEIR MINDS WAS, `What do we make of it?'*)
[[Speech: source]]
But the very absurdity of making such a journey, the inevitability of her dying
on the way, was so great that for days (* SHE DARED NOT EVEN ADMIT the
possibility of doing it TO HERSELF.*)
[[Text: source p.584]]
(* 'Stuff this', THOUGHT BRACKEN TO HIMSELF,*) ...
[[Text: source p.559]]
We eventually broke up for other reasons, but (* PART OF ME WAS THINKING, Do I
really want to have a serious relationship with someone I have to hide part of
my life from?*)'
[[Text: source]]
{serial mixing with MIND PARTS AS PERSONS}
Three moles lying around the chamber walls as if swept aside by a raging storm and in the centre an old mole crouched still and peaceful, aged paws stretched harmlessly before him, snout settling down comfortably on to them.
(* 'Impossible!' Mullion WAS THINKING.
'Oh no, it's not', THOUGHT Bracken. AND THEN, 'Oh no,you don't!' *) as Mullion
started angrily towards the old mole.
[[Text: source p.412]]
He turned to the big mole at the side of the chamber, who raised his snout, shook it, and said 'My name is Stonecrop, also of the Pasture system.'
At this, both Bracken and Mullion started with surprise.
(* 'Stonecrop!' THOUGHT Bracken. 'Stonecrop. Brother of Cairn.
Known to Rebecca. So that was why ...'*)
[[Text: source p.412]]
(* 'Perhaps that's why he's managed to survive', THOUGHT Bracken,*) ...
[[Text: source p.361]]
(* There was so much they hadn't talked about, she and Bracken, SHE THOUGHT TO
HERSELF.*)
[[Text: source p.315]]
Bracken, on one side of the main burrow, and Rebecca on the other, both with
their snouts between their paws, (* fell into thinking the warm, random THOUGHTS
of the contented tired. Mekkins laughing, spring, dangers past, Rose, Rune,
Rue, echoing tunnels. Curlew's eyes, Comfrey, Cairn, Cairn, OH CAIRN, the
Stone, what a time it'd been and how much had happened.*)
[[Text: source p.314]]
{NB: the ``oh Cairn'' indicates IDEAS AS INTERNAL UTTERANCES; the other thoughts don't do so particularly.}
(* 'Still, a mole mustn't go spoiling the present by fearing the future', HE
THOUGHT TO HIMSELF,*) ...
[[Text: source p.314]]
{NB: ``a mole'' refers to the thinker himself.}
She stopped suddenly and turned again to Bracken and just looked at
him. And he looked at her. (* 'Why, she understands!' HE WAS THINKING. 'He
knows!' SHE SAID TO HERSELF.*)
[[Text: source p.313]]
(*'It's Longest Night!' THOUGHT Mekkins TO HIMSELF,*) filled suddenly with a
sense of its joyous mystery ...
[[Text: source p.312]]
(* 'Things certainly work out in a strange way', HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF *) as he
departed, and that was something to take comfort from.
[[Text: source p.296]]
(* 'He's like a pup', SHE THOUGHT DELIGHTEDLY,*) because she had never mated
before with a mole who was barely an adult.
[[Text: source p.264]]
The words that Hulver had taught him now came back and each one seemed to carry
a meaning for him which he had not seen when he first recited them: `[verse
omitted].' (* THEN HIS MIND FELL SILENT FOR A TIME *) ...
[[Text: source p.225-226]]
(* RUNE NOTED THIS REMARK DOWN IN HIS MEMORY.*)
[[Text: source p.194]]
(* 'Elder meetings never start on time, anyway', HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF, *) ...
[[Text: source p.76]]
(* A SNATCH OF THE GRACE HULVER HAD SPOKEN CAME BACK TO HIM AND HE LET ITS
WORDS RUN THROUGH HIS TIRED MIND LIKE THE SOUND OF THE BREEZE IN THE LONG GRASS
BY THE EDGE OF THE WOOD:*) ...
[[Text: source p.70-71]]
Cobham was only a village, but it was still some task to check every inch of
it, especially in the dark. (* HOPELESS, SAID A MOCKING VOICE INSIDE HER. SHE
CHOKED THE VOICE,*) made herself walk on.
[[Text: source p.366]]
{mixing with MIND PARTS AS PERSONS?}
... [the place names] were obituaries or bad school reports, (* ETCHED DEEP
INTO HIS SOUL.*)
[[Text: source p.18]]
Those thoughts, condensed into a moment of complex vision, flashed in
Rose's mind like some terrifying aerial explosion. (* SHE SAID ALOUD, 'I
don't really think this.'*)
[[Text: source]]
{NB: indirect implication of a thought}
(* HE THOUGHT, I am not myself, my soul is sick, I am under a curse.*)
[[Text: source p.484]]
(* SHE THOUGHT, he is sick, he is sick, he is poisoned by those
thoughts, by those terrible thoughts.*)
[[Text: source p.483]]
{NB: nesting of a mental metaphor within.}
(* Perhaps I shall be like that one day, HE THOUGHT, perhaps sooner than I
imagine, this must be my alter ego, something horrible and
prophetic which had crawled out of my unconscious mind and is sitting beside
me!*)
[[Text: source]]
{NB: nesting of a mental metaphor within.}
(* THE QUESTION 'Can I forgive her?' *) had made, for Duncan, the concept of
forgiveness so murky and complex that he ceased employing it.
[[Text: source p.423]]
Jenkin was so used to being just the tiniest bit in love with Rose that it was
scarcely to be called that any more, (* NOR DID HE USE SUCH TERMINOLOGY TO
HIMSELF.*)
[[Text: source p.370]]
(* SHE THOUGHT, SHE EVEN SAID, and he did not contradict her, 'We'll
go away now, shall we, we'll have a break, we'll go to Rome or Venice, we'll
see some lovely places together ... *)
[[Text: source p.349]]
(* TAMAR HAD ENGRAVED UPON HER MIND, AS A TEXT TO BE MEDITATED UPON, VIOLET'S
CLAIM *) ...
[[Text: source p.183]]
(* SOMETHING WAS NAGGING AT ME,*) ... It was Lena Irwin's reference
yesterday to the Burton Kinsey family up in Lampoc.
[[Text: source]]
{perhaps not IDEAS AS INTERNAL UTTERANCES at all}
{mixed with MIND WITHIN PHYSICAL SPACE}
He thought, she will be driven to steal again, ... and she'll go to prison. (*
THE SELFISH SELF-PRESERVING EGO INSIDE HIM SAID *) that might be the best
possible thing that could happen to her.
[[Text: source]]
(* HE SPOKE HIS THOUGHTS ALOUD. `I don't think I could go home ...' *)
[[Text: source]]
(* You do believe she killed him, HIS INNER VOICE SAID.*)
[[Text: source]]
(* Stop it, stop, PHILIP SAID TO HIMSELF AS HE SAID UNAVAILINGLY each time
*) his (* imagination turned in this direction.*)
[[Text: source]]
{mixed metaphor, with COGNIZING AS SEEING?}
(* 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 of metaphor within internal speech}
(* THE THOUGHT came unbidden and most unwelcome, she was all right without me,
... *)
[[Text: source]]
{mixed metaphor, w. MIND WITHIN PHYSICAL SPACE}
Still, he could write a love letter, he knew he could, (* PHRASES from the
fullness of his heart and his longing WERE ALREADY COMING TO HIM,*) ...
[[Text: source]]
{mixed metaphor, with MIND WITHIN PHYSICAL SPACE?}
Philip, momentarily, had a strange (* FEELING *..) that came quite unbidden.
(* IT WAS AS IF A VOICE WITHIN HIM ASKED HIM what he was doing seeking love
... in this awful place. For what woman ... would choose to live [here]?
THIS UNWELCOME REFLECTION *) fled as fast as it had come [because ...].
[[Text: source]]
{mixed metaphor, with IDEAS AS ANIMATE}
(* THE QUESTION *..) he longed to ask, was dying to ask, was displaced by
(..* ANOTHER *..), seemingly less significant. (..* `Was it RADA Senta was at?'*)
[[Text: source]]
{mixed metaphor, with IDEAS AS PHYSICAL OBJECTS}
He was even more delighted to hear her (* ECHO HIS OWN THOUGHTS *) ...
[[Text: source]]
(* [CHERYL'S] NAME and a kind of vague picture of her HAD BEEN IN HIS MIND,#*)
[[Text: source]]
(* `Hey! Claire, where are you going? ...,' REBECCA'S VOICE RESOUNDED IN THE
BACK OF CLAIRE'S MIND.*) {C. was deep in a daydream.}
[[Text: source]]
(* Well, what did you expect, Debbie? I ASKED MYSELF SILENTLY.*)
[[Text: source]]
(* Are you jealous, Debbie? SAID A VOICE INSIDE MY HEAD.*)
[[Text: source]]
(* We're just like ants, I THOUGHT TO MYSELF.*)
[[Text: source]]
(* SUCH QUESTIONS FILTERED IN AND OUT OF HER MIND *) in moments of quiet
reflection. They never, however, found public expression. (* TOM'S NAME WAS
NOT MENTIONED: IT REMAINED BURIED DEEP IN HER SOUL.*)
[NP] That is for five years.
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{NB: SERIAL MIXING with utterances-AS-physical-objs}
But no, her middle class (* UPBRINGING TOLD HER TO COMPOSE HERSELF. Be
dignified, people were everywhere.*) ... She panicked as she caught sight of
her reflection in a parked car window. Eyes sodden, cheeks red, a mass of
tangled hair. (* `Pull yourself together,' SHE TOLD HERSELF.*..)
[NP] She sashed into a nearby pub, past the smiling barman and into the
dingy cloakroom with its cracked mirror. (..* `God, what a sight!'*..)
She rubbed a tissue on the streaked mascara, wiped away the smudged make up,
dragged a comb through her ragged hair. (..* `What shall I do?' SILENT VOICES
CRIED WITHIN HER. `What shall I do?'*)
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Confused, wounded, hurt. What was she going to do? Prolong the silence,
fall to the floor, beg for mercy? (* NO, DISTANT REMINDERS TO RETAIN HER
DIGNITY FILTERED SLOWLY INTO HER MIND.*) (* PARENTS WARNINGS about his past
behaviour BEGAN TO SOUND.*)
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... (* Why the sudden irrational change? Did he not love her? *..) ...
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.*)
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{NB: NESTING OF METAPHOR}
[START OF STORY] Sharon pulled herself out of her jeans, (* THE WORDS `How could
he? How could he?' JUMPING ABOUT HER WEARIED BRAIN.*) Senseless, leaving
her empty, cold, helpless. (* Another voice, angry and vindictive, shouted in
her ear, `Serves you right, you silly fool: ... '[.]*)
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(* `I should never have got engaged,' I GROANED INWARDLY; ...
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Suddenly I was having second thoughts. About us, I mean. (* Did I really
want to get married and spend the rest of my life with Mick? *..)
[NP] (..* Of course you do ONE SMALL VOICE INSISTED.*..)
[NP] (..* Are you quite sure about that? ANOTHER NUDGED.*) (* SO
MUCH WAS GOING ON IN MY HEAD,*) I couldn't sleep. My eyes refused to stay
closed and I tossed and I turned.
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{NB: NUDGED: the metaphor is chained with voice-effect-as-nudging? Or some metonymy? Or is there MPAP here?}
All these things flowed through U Po Kyin's mind swiftly and for the most
part in pictures.
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{Follows a paragraph of represented thought.}
{N.B.: Cancellation of the verbal quality of the thought.}
(* A PART OF ME WARNED:*) people who live unlisted don't all of a sudden list.
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Then (* MY MOTHER'S VOICE STAMPED THROUGH ME, LAUGHING: YOU WOULD NEVER
HAVE GONE TO Firth Adams College.*)
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{NB: mother not present, so the voice is purely mental.}
But my mother (* got it in her mind *) that we had to have a better
dress. (* We'd show them.*)
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(* HALF OF ME WHISPERED THAT *) I'd drive all the way there.
[[Text: source]]
Perhaps (* SOMEWHERE IN THE BACK OF [his] BRAIN THERE RAN A MURMUR *) telling
him that ...
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{mixing with MIND AS PHYSICAL SPACE}
... Hilary Frome was ornamental rather than creditable, but (* THE TWO THINGS
ELIDED IN [the headmaster's] MIND.*)
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{may not be IDEAS AS INTERNAL UTTERANCES}
{Put it here because elision is usually a matter of language}
Did part of you (* THINK, `Yes, ... I'm flattered ...'*)?
[[Speech: source]]
... [you {generic} are] (* WONDERING IN YOUR OWN HEAD *) whether ...
[[Speech: source]]
{may not be IDEAS AS INTERNAL UTTERANCES}
{the "in your own head" emphasizes lack of overt speech?}
I (* CONVINCED MYSELF IN MY OWN MIND *) that [I really worked for the Theatre
Department and not the English Department because of an unpleasant situation in
the latter].
[[Speech: source]]
{may not be IDEAS AS INTERNAL UTTERANCES}
{connotation that she didn't wholly believe that she really worked in
Theatre? Or is the "in my own mind" serving just to emphasize no overt speech?}
(* She shouldn't be a Sandy, the name is so incongruous with her looks, I
THOUGHT,*) noticing not for the first time her delicate, pale skin; ...
[[Text: source p.16]]
"Yes," I said, "[your hairstyle] gives you a really different look." (*
Different from what you see in the mirror, I THOUGHT.*)
[[Text: source p.48]]
... I was picturing Jacqui admiring the finished [lemon mirror cake], admiring
herself in its shiny glaze, when I was struck by an odd (* THOUGHT *..)
seemingly from nowhere: (..* What would Jacqui see? *) [in the refelection in
the cake]
[[Text: source p.47]]
Perhaps he had been chosen as a champion ... to cross swords with the enemy of
all creation. `After all,' (* HE SAID TO HIMSELF,*) `I am more than a devil; I
am a man. ... I can die,' and as (* THE WORD WENT THROUGH HIS HEAD,*) ...
[[Text: source p.118]]
{NB: coherence -- internal-saying / word-in-head}
In a time of dwindling resources, educators, politicians and parents of
typical children may well (* ASK WHETHER *) the expense is worth it.
[NP] I can ANSWER with an unqualified yes.
[[Text: source]]
Around Chrysler, the once (* UNTHINKABLE was spoken: was Iacocca still the
best guy for Chrysler? *)
[[Text: source]]
"When free trade was announced last year, everyone here immediately (*
THOUGHT, 'Wow, I'm going to have access to the world's largest market',*)" says
Hector Moreira, ...
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(* THE QUESTION ON THE MINDS *) of many veep watchers, naturally enough, is
how much of his performance in office has been Quayle's own doing and how much
has been the staff's.
[[Text: source]]
Or at least that is what (* HIS BEST INFORMATION --- AND HIS INSTINCTS --- TELL
HIM.*)
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"To see women performing well, with no drama or fanfare, seems to me to be
more striking than anything else women have done lately. And because of
television, it is (* WRITTEN IN THE PUBLIC CONSCIOUSNESS *) now." [says
someone]
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Saddam might have a 700,000-man Army, but when Schwarzkopf looked at what it
could do, (* HE THOUGHT, "This was a lousy outfit. Lousy." *)
[[Text: source]]
Then there was Saddam's forlorn attack on Khafji, when he began (* TO THINK,
"We are going to kick this guy's tail."*)
[[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'." *)
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The day the air war began and Saddam lost control of the
skies, he (* THOUGHT WITH RELIEF, "We've got them." *)
The (* conviction *) sprang from Schwarzkopf's certainty that Saddam
could no longer escape, not from his love for rival services.
[[Text: source]]
What bothered him was that he didn't want to live the rest of his life with
the (* THOUGHT, "There's Norm Schwarzkopf, the Butcher of Baghdad,"*) ...
[[Text: source]]
One caregiver (* ECHOED WHAT OTHERS FEEL *) --- "I'm a working mother too,
and i have to get home to my family! ..."
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When fixed on a goal or faced with frustration, (* THE INNER VOICE OF THE
CONFIDENT CHILD SAYS, "I can do it."*...) Without this (...* VOICE *) children
give up easily and set their sights low.
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Performer said: "My (* INTUITION TOLD ME *) this would a be a good piece to play."
[[Speech: source]]
Finally, and perhaps most important, if you suddenly find yourself isolated
from all the people you've been closest to, you might want to (* ASK YOURSELF *)
why.
[[Text: source]]
What (* NAGGED AT HER *) was his use of cocaine, ...
[[Text: source]]
"(* I KEPT THINKING, Maybe this drug or that shrink will cure him
*),"
says Pam.
[[Text: source]]
... says Anne. "Instead, (* I JUST KEPT SAYING, `This is the
thin part of the through-thick-and-thin section of our wedding
vows.'*)"
[[Text: source]]
``She doesn't usually splurge on wildly expensive items but instead will drop
a hundred dollars at a five-and-dime or pick up a few pairs of sixty-dollar
aerobic shoes when she needs a release. (* If you want it, just get
it, SHE FIGURES, then worry how to pay for it later on.*)
[[Text: source]]
{may not manifest the metaphor}
He said all the right things: that he wasn't happy with his marriage, that he
loved Natasha and would leave his wife for her. Though she knew the odds of
that happening were marginal, Natasha believed him. (* "I'm
different," SHE TOLD HERSELF.*)
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If we could (* read Howard's mind *), he was probably (* THINKING, "I'll buy
these golf clubs so Helene and I can spend more time together."*) But Helene's
(* RESPONSE WAS, "That present is for him --- not me."*)
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{NB: most of passage is in upper case inthe file}
(If Jim had followed that guideline, he would have (* ASKED HIMSELF, "I
wonder if Maryanne would like an exercise bike?"*) )
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