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I clutch the railings for support, feeling wrung out, as if (* THIS NEW
FEAR THAT HAS SUDDENLY SATURATED ME MIGHT DISSOLVE MY BONES AND MUSCLES.*)
[[Text: source, p.47]]
(* RELIEF WASHES OVER ME, SINKING INTO MY TIRED BONES.*)
[[Text: source, p.170]]
[S]he had curves, soft round ones, made her look older than sixteen.
Lovely, Selena was; ... (* You don't want to notice this stuff on a kid, your mind wants to jump
away.*..) But it matters, same as it would on a grown woman. Changes every
day of her life. So you notice. (..* SCRAPE THE GREASY FEELING OFF YOUR
MIND *) whatever way you can.
[[Text: source, p.132]]
{Unusual use of IDEAS AS PHYSICAL OBJECTS, in a tight mix with MIND AS ANIMATE BEING OR LIVING BODY:
The feeling is attached to the mind-as-body; and the feeling is "greasy".}
Something about the Julia interview (* WAS POKING AT ME. IT WAS
STUCK IN A BACK CORNER OF MY MIND, WHERE I COULDN'T GET MY HANDS ON IT:*)
something she'd said, that we'd let go when we should have pounced.
[[Text: source, p.216]]
The long day had (* MY MIND MOVING LIKE PORRIDGE, BITS OF THOUGHT
TAKING FOREVER TO FIND EACH OTHER.*) The corrdidor stretching away in
front of us looked unreal, tiles too red, lines too long, something we'd
never be able to stop seeing.
[[Text: source, p.322]]
{On this webpage becauset the MIND part is a collective way of
describing the thoughts themselves. But
the example is also classified under MIND AS PHYSICAL OBJECT -
MISCELLANEOUS, and under MIND AS
PHYSICAL SPACE because of relative movement of the bits of thought.}
(* Esti felt another WAVE OF FATIGUE BREAK OVER HER, veined-pink and
roiling.*)
[[Text: p.172]]
{incl. METONYMY in that the pink-veined quality of her vision and her
roling feeling are acribed to the fatigue?}
Dwelling within the congregation, she noted (* THE FAMILIAR SOUP OF THOUGHT
AND EMOTION.* There were angers here, bitter hatreds, fear and boredom
and resentment and guilt and sorrow.*)
[[Text: p.102/3]]
{Within a long passage (see the Text) in which the narrator conceives of herself as
inhabiting the people in the congregation (and inanimate objects) in the
synagogue that provides the setting.}
... (* INSIDE Jackson THERE REMAINED A BELIEF -- A SMALL, BATTERED AND
BRUISED BELIEF -- *) that his job was to help people be good rather than
punish them for being bad.
[[Text: source]]
... (* A semi-conscious part of [Jackson's] brain read *..) the words
emblazoned on the side panel of the van in black lettering -- `Favours
-- We Do What You Want Us To Do!' (..* and another semi-conscious part
of his brain DREDGED UP *..) the little pink card [with the same slogan
on it] that had been in the dead girl's bra yesterday.
[[Text: source]]
{Mixing with MIND PARTS AS PERSONS.}
I had started trying ... (* to remember *..) what had happened in that
wood. (..* I PRODDED TENTATIVELY AROUND THE EDGES OF IT,*) barely
acknowledging even to myself what I was doing, like a kid picking at a
scab but afraid to look.
[[Text:
p.242]]
{It is closely followed and replaced by a use of COGNIZING AS PHYSICALLY SENSING}
And in this condition she had been aware of (* a stately, simple
musical phrase, playing and repeating itself, IN THE SHADOWY UNGRASPABLE
WAY OF AUDITORY MEMORY, FOLLOWING HER to the bedside, ...*)
[[Text:
source, p.80]]
{NB mixing with COGNIZING AS SEEING.}
(* His mind wandered back to her harsh words earlier.*..) ... [NP]
(..* Then HIS ANGER SKIDDED AROUND TO HIMSELF *) for wasting time thinking about
the frisson between him and Sachs.
[[Text:
source, p.132]]
{The anger: IDEAS AS PHYSICAL OBJECTS or IDEAS AS
PERSONS OR OTHER LIVING BEINGS?
The first sentence uses MIND AS ANIMATE BEING OR LIVING BODY.}
(* IT SEEMED THAT A THOUGHT HOVERED [in Sachs's mind] . AND FLITTED AWAY.*)
[[Text:
source, p.520]]
{From the context in the book, the mentioned "seeming" seems to be from
the point of view of the person talking to Sachs, or of a general
observer, rather than to Sachs herself, though it could be.}
He is no less dead ... (* A WHITE-COLD SPARK OF TERROR JOLTS
ME.*..) Then I go limp, as (..* WHATEVER FEAR IT WAS THAT GRIPPED ME *)
passes. For a fraction of a second, I knew what those words meant. [NP]
I didn't want to know. (* I PUSHED THEM OUT OF SIGHT.*..) That was the (*
jolt *) I experienced: (..* my memory trying TO TOSS THE EVIDENCE AWAY,*)
...
[[Text:
source, p.157]]
{Mixing of different types of PHYSICAL OBJECT that the terror is: a
spark, something cold, something that can grip; also the coldness is
white.
NB: The words are ones written at a murder scene.
The words (in their mental manifestation) are portrayed as seen,
movable physical objects.
At end of excerpt: Mixing with MIND AS ANIMATE BEING OR LIVING BODY.}
}
He was experiencing a peculiarly mixed set of emotions. Horror and
dismay ... A compassionate pity ... But beyond these perfectly natural
reactions he was (* FIRED WITH AN ARDENT GLOW OF CURIOSITY AND
INTEREST.*) (* One side of him warred with the other.*) He felt that it was
abhorrent to look upon crime, especially murder, as anything more than
foul and unthinkable. At the same time (* this little devil of curiosity
kept on tugging at his sleeve demanding attention.*..) ... The argument was
good. But (..* the little imp of curiosity was better.*)
[[Text: source, p.30]]
{NB: mixing or switching: IDEAS and EMOTIONS AS PHYSICAL OBJECTS; MIND
PARTS AS PERSONS; IDEAS AS ANIMATE BEINGS}
He returned with a sigh to his sermon. For twenty minutes, blessed
with great fluency, he wrote at breakneck speed and then, once again,
(* HIS INSPIRATION DRIED UP *..) and (* the facts of Tregarthan's murder began to
revolve like a flock of blackbirds about his head.*) [NP] ... For a long
time the Vicar stared at the half-completed sheet of writing before him
then, unable to stomach (..* HIS ARIDITY OF THOUGHT *) any longer, [he went out
for a walk].
[[Text: source, p.110]]
{NB: mixing or switching: IDEAS AS PHYSICAL OBJECTS and IDEAS AS ANIMATE BEINGS}
How, then, to explain the single shot? The Inspector couldn't. He
gave up the attempt. (* IT WAS LEFT TO FLOAT LIKE AN IRRITATING SPECK IN THE
BACK OF HIS MIND.*)
[[Text: source, p.152]]
He is back on the island for the first time in around
20 years and trying to absorb the changes in (* A PLACE CANDIED IN HIS
MIND.*)
[[Text:
source]]
(* SHE GRADUALLY SETTLED DOWN INTO THAT PLACIDITY *) which ...
[[Text:
source, p.47]]
(* PICK HER WAY AS CAREFULLY AS SHE MIGHT AMONG HIS FEELINGS *..) there
were always some, apparently, that she hadn't dreamed (* WERE THERE AND
THAT SHE ACCORDINGLY KNOCKED AGAINST.*)
[[Text:
source, p.117]]
With a quick shiver (* SHE GRABBED AT HER THOUGHTS AND CAUGHT THEM *)
just in time.
[[Text:
source, p.136]]
For an instant she had an impulse to cry out and beat on the door, ...;
but she was stopped by a sudden new wisdom. (* IT SHUDDERED DOWN ON HER
HEART,*..) a wisdom she had never known or needed before, (..* AND HELD
HER QUIET.*)
[[Text:
source, p.146]]
{Odd view of wisdom as a physical object that can shudder, and also hold her. Possibly an
animate being?}
Lucy stood ..., staring at the floor, (* DROPPING BACK INTO HER QUITE NEW SET OF
ASTONISHED, PAINFUL THOUGHTS.*)
[[Text:
source, p.153]]
feeling (* WEDGES OF PANIC DRIVE THEMSELVES INTO HIS STOMACH AND
GROIN.*) ... and desperately (* PUSHED AWAY FROM HIM the one piece of
information *) that was at the core of his terror.
[[Text: source p.275]]
[the local election result is] (* food for thought *) for all the
[political] parties, but something of a (* BANQUET *) for UKIP
[[Speech: source]]
{extension of a conventional idiom}
... but all the time (* HER THOUGHTS WERE LIKE A FLOCK OF BIRDS CIRCLING A FOOD
SOURCE, LIGHTING UPON IT BRIEFLY AND TAKING FLIGHT AGAIN. INSTEAD OF A
FOOD SOURCE, THOUGH, THE FLOCK OF BIRDS CIRCLED Gina Dickens, ONLY TO
FIND OUT THAT THERE WERE FAR TOO MANY PLACES FOR THEM TO LAND WITHOUT A
SINGLE ONE OFFERING EITHER A DECENT FOOTHOLD OR SAFETY FROM
PREDATION.*)
[[Text: source]]
{NB: Gina Dickens in the physical source scenario.}
I kept it secret. (* I WRAPPED IT UP VERY VERY TIGHTLY IN AN INVISIBLE
CLOAK *..) so that (..* I couldn't see it *) ... and the whole denial
experience ... put me in good stead.
[[Speech: source]]
{Mixing with COGNIZING AS SEEING}
So far, in fact, there is no clear-cut definition of "victory" in the drug
war. "We've got to be careful here " one Pentagon official confides. "(* THE
MILITARY IS STILL GROPING *) with their final objective." With its prestige on
the line, will the military settle for the "support" role Cheney has set for
it, or will a logic of escalation take hold?
[[Text: source]]
(* His thoughts have assumed A SINUOUS, SNAKING QUALITY, DRIVEN BY THE SAME
UNDULATING POWER that's making the space in the long room ripple, as
well as the floor beneath his chair. Feelings have become in this
respect LIKE LIGHT ITSELF - WAVELIKE,*..) as they used to say in his physics
class. He needs to stay here and, in his usual manner, (*.. BREAK THEM DOWN
INTO THEIR COMPONENTS, THE QUANTA, and find all the distal and proximal
causes;*) ...
[[Text: source p.262]]
{NB: metonymy from "the space ..." and "the floor ..." to his
perceptions of them. Also the analogy between those perceptions and his feelings.}
His brain felt reduced to a kind of dense jam in which (* HIS THOUGHTS HAD
TROUBLE CIRCULATING AND SOMETIMES GOT STUCK.*)
[[Text: source p.93]]
Deep inside his ears the [police] inspector distinctly heard
the sound of (* HIS HYPOTHESES FALLING NOISILY TO PIECES.*)
[[Text: source p.180]]
But the ache in his limbs was worse and he was [p.362:] (* possessed of
A HEAVY WEARINESS *) which made intolerable even the effort of getting
out of bed.
[[Text: source p.362]]
[NP] He stood, bent to pluck a leaf, and rubbed it in his fingers. Its
scent (* came *) powerfully to him, and (* WITH IT THE MEMORY OF
THE TREE'S SEASONS.*)
[[Text: source]]
{See source document for a comment about time-ordering of memories/events.}
The fact that she had not yet seen her step-mother made no difference;
she still (* felt her dislike of her RISE UP *) just as intensely as
at first, and it (* BLOTTED OUT *) all her other feelings.
[[Text: source]]
{First segment: embedding within feeling. Also, example of "feel" as
metaphoricity signal.}
{"BLOTTED OUT": parallel mixing with COGNIZING AS SEEING.}
Did the (* RUMBLINGS [before the destruction] REACH YOU *) in America?
{"rumblings" not meant literally in the context; refers to psychological/social
effects}
[[Speech: source]]
{Not sure correctly categorized here. Mixed with IDEAS AS EXTERNAL
ENTITIES(?).
Metaphorical question.
Example of partially real and
co-present source domain aspect: the (physical) rumblings in the source
domain are real ones.
But in source also have the *possible* physical
rumblings that could extend over the globe from a quake, etc.}
He left, and for a while I stayed behind shut doors, depressed, (* MY
THOUGHTS LIKE THE SLUGGISH RIVER BEHIND MY HOME.*)
[[Text: source p.154]]
{NB: interesting issue of why "behind my home" is included / what
difference it makes.}
Why did his mind pick its way as delicately as a cat through cactus? It
had been sweetly done, almost in a spirit of philanthropy. (* Lee's mind
leaped ahead at THE POSSIBILITIES *) ...
[[Text: source]]
I want to plumb the depths of his shriveled taxi driver soul and (* DESTROY
ANY LAST VESTIGE OF HUMAN DIGNITY HE MAY HAVE TUCKED AWAY IN THERE.*)
[[Text: source]]
The whole of my childhood (* RUSHED THROUGH MY HEAD LIKE AN ELECTRIC
TRAIN *)
[[Speech: source]]
{mixed with metonymy ENTITY FOR IDEA OF IT}
[NP] (*"DECOUPLING"*) in Focusing does not imply (*DISCONNECTION,*)
however. Probably the term (*"LOOSELY COUPLED"*) would be more
appropriate in describing "the Focusing attitude of (* BEING SEPARATE
FROM, BUT IN CARING RELATIONSHIP TO"*) one's own emotions ...
[[Text: source]]
{mixed with other metaphors in the context: see the source text}
... she could no longer avoid (* the unconscious thought
that was BATTLING ITS WAY THROUGH THE MONDAY-MORNING RUSH-HOUR
TRAFFIC OF HER MIND.*) Had she forgotten to do something?
[[Text: source]]
(* HER WORDS TRIGGERED AN ELUSIVE MEMORY.*) Something someone had said
to me in the last few weeks about Xerxes and insurance. I frowned,
trying to (* DRAG IT TO THE SURFACE, BUT I COULDN'T GET HOLD OF IT. *)
[[Text: source p.226]]
(* MY ANGER RETURNED IN A RUSH, FUELED BY DISAPPOINTMENT: *) ...
[[Text: source p.226]]
We went at it like a couple of six-year-olds, (* BOTH VENTING OUR FURY *)
over the threats and humiliations of the past few weeks.
[[Text: source p.226]]
(* THE ELUSIVE MEMORY I'D BEEN TRYING TO FORCE SINCE SATURDAY SWAM
ACROSS THE SURFACE OF MY MIND AGAIN AND DISAPPEARED.*..) [NP] "What?"
Murray demanded suspiciously. [NP] "Nothing. I thought I remembered
something but (..* I CAN'T QUITE GET IT."*)
[[Text: source p.251-2]]
(* THE URGENCY tightened my stomach and CONGEALED MY BRAIN.*) [NP]
[[Text: source p.258]]
{perhaps also metonymy of BRAIN FOR MIND}
(* HOPING THAT IF I KEPT THE FRONT OF MY MIND OCCUPIED, THE BACK WOULD
BEGIN TO SPROUT IDEAS.*)
[[Text: source p.258]]
{nested within mental state}
(* AS I LAY STILL, LETTING IMAGES FLOW THROUGH MY MIND,*)
[[Text: source p.183]]
(* Every time I tried sending my mind back to the three black-slickered
men *) (* I SHIED AWAY FROM THE MEMORY LIKE A HORSE FRIGHTENED BY
FIRE.*)
[[Text: source p.183]]
(* I COULDN'T BEAR TO TOUCH THE MEMORIES.*)
[[Text: source p.183]]
The hope that some forgotten phrase or cadence would give me a lead to
who they worked for (* WASN'T ENOUGH TO FORCE THE MEMORY OF THAT
TERRIFYING NEAR-SUFFOCATION.*)
[[Text: source p.183]]
(* IF I SPILLED EVERYTHING I KNEW TO BOBBY, TURNING THE WHOLE TANGLED
MESS OVER TO HIM,*)
[[Text: source p.183]]
(* ONCE I'D LET THAT LITTLE PIECE OF SELF-KNOWLEDGE FLOAT TO THE TOP OF
MY MIND, a terrible rage began to seize hold of me.*)
[[Text: source p.184]]
I had slept badly, (* WITH DREAMS THAT HOVERED NEAR THE FRONTIER OF
NIGHTMARE BUT DID NOT ACTUALLY CROSS IT.*)
[[Text: source p.29]]
Vanessa had unsettled me, (* BREACHED THE DEFENCES I HAD BUILT UP SO
LABORIOUSLY. (AND I HAD BEEN ALL TO WILLING TO HAVE THEM BREACHED.) *)
[[Text: source p.29]]
I stared at her, (* FIGHTING A RISING TIDE OF DISBELIEF.*)
[[Text: source p.30]]
(* I FELT A RUSH OF ANGER TOWARDS RONALD, JOINING THE OTHER EMOTIONS
WHICH WERE SWIRLING ROUND THE SITTING ROOM. IF I STAYED HERE, THEY
WOULD SUCK ME DOWN.*)
[[Text: source p.35]]
(* I PUSHED ASIDE THE MEMORY.*)
[[Text: source p.146]]
(* I PUSHED ASIDE THE QUESTIONS *) and made notes.
[[Text: source p.183]]
(*I felt as though my mind were encased in lead shielding---protective
covering to keep ANY IDEAS FROM ENTERING. The residue of my fear.*)
[[Text: source p.269]]
... (* BUT KNOWING IT DIDN'T MAKE A STREAM OF IDEAS GUSH FORTH.*)
[[Text: source p.269]]
The bus's grinding diesel had somehow provided the background I
needed to (* relax my mind completely,*) (* FOR IDEAS TO FLOW. If an
ambulance had come for Louisa, if she was completely sedated, ... *)
[[Text: source p.272]]
My voice was calm but (* AN ADRENALINE SURGE CLEARED MY LETHARGY LIKE
SUNLIGHT ON FOG.*)
[[Text: source p.306]]
(* THE JUSTIFICATION SEEMS TO HAVE GOT LOST ALONG THE WAY *) but the
attitude has prevailed until recently.
[[Speech:
source; <jab 55>]]
{Collective Mind as Physical Space?}
(* THE THOUGHTS SWAM IN THE INSPECTOR'S HEAD *) like the debris twisting and
whirling in the roaring runnels of the house. (* AND THE LAST PIECE FELL INTO
PLACE. *)
[[Text: source p.254]]
(* AN IDEA HOVERED FOR A MOMENT NEAR THE EDGE OF HIS MIND, AND WITHOUT HAVING
TIME TO WEIGH ITS MERITS HE SEIZED ON IT. *)
[[Text: source p.176]]
(* A LITTLE FLAME OF RAGE BURNED UP THROUGH THE THICK FUZZ IN GHOTE'S HEAD. *)
[[Text: source p.161]]
(* FIRMLY HE PUSHED THE IMPULSE TO THE BACK OF HIS MIND *)
[[Text: source p.41]]
(* THE THOUGHT *) of his wife, of his boy Ved, of their neat new house in
Government Quarters (* CAME INTO HIS MIND WITH THE SUDDENESS OF A CLANGING BELL.
METHODICALLY HE PUSHED THE THOUGHT DOWN AGAIN. *)
[[Text: source p.90]]
(* HE RUSHED BACK TO THE VILLAGE WITH HIS EXTRAORDINARY TALE *)
[[Text: source; <jab 42>]]
(* HE FELT HIS ANGER RISING STEP BY STEP, *) and had just enough power over
himself to keep it in check.
[[Text: source p.66]]
(* BENEATH THE CRASHING AND ROARING OF THE SWEDE'S ANALYSIS *) a tiny notion crept
into the Inspector's head. *)
[[Text: source p.157]]
(* THE TWO FACTS FLOATED IN FRONT OF HIM FOR A LITTLE WHILE, *) and then he too
was asleep.
[[Text: source p.109]]
(* BLIND WAVES OF PANIC SWEPT OVER AND OVER HIM. *)
[[Text: source p.161]]
It was as if he had (* gleaned some impressions *), some impressions that needed
to be discussed, but which had not yet (* CONGEALED INTO A SET OF IDEAS. *)
[[Text: source p.278]]
(* EXTRACT AS MUCH INFORMATION *) from as many sources as possible.
[[Text: source]]
you don't study because you are told to, (* BUT THAT YOU HAVE INTERESTS WHICH
GENERATE FROM INSIDE YOU *)
[[Text: source]]
I actually (* SEEK OUT STRESS AND WALLOW IN THE STUFF *)
[[Speech: source]]
(* UNTIE YOUR FOLDED THOUGHTS,/ AND LET THEM DANGLE LOOSE, AS A BRIDE'S HAIR *)
[[Text: source]]
(* WEIGHING THE DEMANDS OF THE ATTACK ON MR. PERFECT AGAINST THOSE OF THER THEFT
OF ONE RUPEE *)
[[Text: source pp.40-41]]
(* THE INSPECTOR TOOK THE VEILED POINT. *)
[[Text: source p.61]]
Inspector Ghote listened to the tirade (* WITH LITTLE GUSHES OF HOT ANGER
SHOOTING OUT INSIDE HIM TILL HE FELT ON THE POINT OF BURSTING. *)
[[Text: source p.90]]
(* AND THE TRICKLE OF COLD DOUBT. *) Hadn't he heard gossip at the station?
[[Text: source p.90]]
Inspector Ghote interrupted him before (* HIS WRATH FULLY EXPLODED. *)
[[Text: source p.96]]
(* INSPECTOR GHOTE STILL RETAINED SOME POLITENESS. BUT BEFORE LONG THE LAST OF
IT HAD EVAPORATED IN THE...AIR. *)
[[Text: source p.96]]
(* THE THOUGHT DRUMMED DARKLY IN HIS HEAD *)
[[Text: source pp.152-153]]
Yet for all his efforts (* THE SOMBRE BLACK THOUGHTS ROLLED OUT *)
[[Text: source p.153]]
(* HE LET THE THOUGHT LIE LIKE A COOL GEM IN HIS MIND. *)
[[Text: source p.157]]
The third he did catch, by now (* FUMING WITH BAD TEMPER. *)
[[Text: source p.159]]
(* HE WAS CHOKING WITH BLACK RAGE. *)
[[Text: source p.159]]
(* HE PUSHED THE WHOLE COMPLEX OF THOUGHTS BRUSQUELY AWAY *)
[[Text: source p.177]]
For a moment (* THE THOUGHT OF PROTIMA'S IMPORTUNATE DEMANDS FOR THE
REFRIGERATOR CAME INTO GHOTE'S MIND, BUT HE THRUST THE VISION LOYALLY AWAY *)
[[Text: source pp.214-215]]
(* He reached into the back of his mind. PRYING FINGERTIPS JUST TOUCHING A TINY
NEGLECTED NUGGET OF INFORMATION. AND SUDDENLY HE HAD IT. IT HAD BEEN GIVEN TO
HIM WHEN HIS ATTENTION HAD BEEN CONCENTRATED ON THE PERFECT CASE AND HE HAD
CONTRIVED FOR THAT REASON TO IGNORE IT. *)
[[Text: source p.216]]
the inspector knew, (* WITH IRON-PRESSED CERTAINTY *)...
[[Text: source pp.250-251]]
Once again (* IT STRUCK YOU THAT *) an actor was more likely to win sympathy
from an audience than a slack-jawed garrulous Balaclava.
[[Text: source; <jab 35>]]
If it worries you that the national survey on sexual habits is not going to take
place, you could (* TAKE COMFORT FROM THE THOUGHT *) that is probably won't make
a vast amount of difference in the long run.
[[Speech: source; <jab 39>]]
preparing your soul for judgment day will be (* PUSHED UP YOUR LIST OF
PRIORITIES *)
[[Speech: source; <jab 53>]]
As Richards pointed out, the fact that the history of sexuality has had to wait
so long to be written shows (* THE STRENGTH OF THE TABOOS WE HAVE INHERITED *) .
[[Speech: source; <jab 59>]]
Mr Beeton is (* CONSIDERING A RANGE OF OPTIONS *)
[[Speech: source; <jab 34>]]
Exhibitions, educational films, period plays, even music, are all (* ON THE
AGENDA *) but medieval banquets are firmly (* OFF IT *).
[[Speech: source; <jab 36><jab 37>]]
(* WE HAVE BUILT UP A GREAT DEAL OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE HISTORICAL SIDE OF THE
PALACES *)
[[Speech: source; <jab 43><jab 42>]]
(* THEY PUT THEIR THOUGHTS IN THEIR POCKETS *)
[[Text: source; <jab 36>]]
I can (* GET THESE POINTS RIGHT UP WHERE THEY BELONG *)
[[Speech: source; <jab 34>]]
If I...(* COME ACROSS THE SAME PROBLEM A FEW TIMES I COULD HOPEFULLY WORK ON THAT AND THEN PROBABLY ERADICATE ALTOGETHER *)
[[Speech: source; <jab 35><jab 36>]]
So do come and see me if its (* A PROBLEM YOU'VE GOT THAT YOU THINK NEEDS SORTING OUT *)
[[Speech: source; <jab 79><jab 37>]]
if you think there's a, a campaign you wanna be involved in or wanna gat started
(* I'LL PUT THAT ON TO THE AREA N U S WHO WILL, IF IT'S A CREDIBLE CASE, WILL
PUT IT FORWARD TO THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE *)
[[Speech: source; <jab 64><jab 39>]]
(* IF YOU DON'T REMEMBER...IT COMES IN HANDY *)
[[Speech: source; <jab 11>]]
(* QUICKLY PUT IT OUT OF YOUR MINDS *)
[[Speech: source; <jab 24>]]
(* WE WANT TO ARRIVE AT SOLUTIONS *)
[[Speech: source; <jab 60]]
a level at which stylistic options and devices are related to the ideologies of
manliness and womanliness which we either (* BRING TO OUR READING OR DERIVE FROM
IT *)
[[Text: source; <jab 18>]]
The subject of ideology is given a secondary position in the book, subordinate
to that of style which is here treated as being (* ONLY INCIDENTALLY TOUCHED BY
IDEOLOGICAL ISSUES *)
[[Text: source; <jab 24>]]
The book comprises five chapters and a Postscript which are (* BOUND INTO A
COHESIVE WHOLE *)
[[Text: source; <jab 26>]]
These transitions are in the main successful (* LINKING DIFFERENT PHASES AND
DETAILS OF A FLIGHT WITH THE CENTRAL THEMES *)
[[Text: source; <jab 33>]]
In the course of this book (* NASH SEEMS TO ADOPT A RATHER DETACHED STANCE *)
[[Text: source; <jab 46>]]
(* THOSE PARTS OF THE ANALYSIS WHERE THERE WOULD NORMALLY BE EXAMPLES FROM
POPFICTION *)
[[Text: source; <jab 105>]]
So I had a meeting with Dailey to talk about the workshops and so on, so (*
WE'VE BASHED OUT THE FORMAT *)
[[Speech: source; <jab 15>]]
(* PEOPLE START BRINGING UP...PROBLEMS *)
[[Speech: source; <jab 45><jab 46>]]
(* ANNE'D GO UP THE WALL OVER THAT *)
[[Speech: source; <jab 49>]]
(* MAKES A LOT MORE SENSE *)
[[Speech: source; <jab 14>]]
(* SOMETHING HAD BEEN TUGGING AT THE BACK OF MY MIND *) for a while.
[[Speech: source]]
[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, ...
[[Text: source p.265]]
During the day, it might be a park Belinda would visit to watch children
on the swings. (* SHE WOULD BRING HER FANTASIES, HER MEMORIES, HER HOPE *..)
for a clue to what her child might have looked like. But (..* SHE DIDN'T BRING
ANY OF THAT WITH HER TONIGHT.*)
[[Text: source p.241]]
... (* WEIGHTED DOWN WITH QUESTIONS NO ONE COULD ANSWER AND AN ARMLOAD OF
GUILT.*)
[[Text: source p.242]]
Mark frowned and his brow creased the same way Sara's did (* WHEN
TOO MANY THOUGHTS COLLIDED.*)
[[Text: source p.240]]
She never lit candles anymore---only lamps. (* MEMORIES IGNITED WITH
CANDLE FLAMES *)---ugly memories---and she didn't think the flames had any
right to dance around so merrily.
[[Text: source p.235]]
{zeugma-avoidance: ignition}
But it was only (* a passing concern, CROWDED OUT BY THE IMAGE *) of Philippe
and the media frenzy surrounding him.
[[Text: source p.192]]
{possible MIND AS PHYSICAL SPACE}
[The dress] was crumbling into a ball (* LIKE THE BAD MEMORY IT HAD
BECOME.*) [p.188] She knew she'd never wear it again.
[[Text: source p.187-8]]
{zeugma-avoidance: crumbling}
Or maybe the wind didn't stop; it was just that (* ALL HER SENSES FROZE *) in
that second. She couldn't see, hear or feel.
[[Text: source p.184]]
(* SHE TRIED TO SLOW HER MIND DOWN,*) take stock, make a choice---there was a
choice, right? But it was (* NOT ONLY HER MIND THAT WAS SPINNING;*) the room
was, too---candle flames and lamplight whirling like carnival lights.
[[Text: source p.182]]
{zeugma or zeugma-avoidance: spinning}
(* THE RAIN WAS COMING DOWN HARDER, WASHING OUT HER MEMORY LIKE A BAD STRETCH
OF ROAD.*) She closed her eyes, (* DIVING INTO THE DELUGE FOR CLUES,*) for
anything that might help her understand what happened.
[[Text: source p.181]]
What would happen when (* THE CLOUDS OVER HER MEMORY CLEARED *) and she (*
realized *) that ...
[[Text: source p.168]]
She (* knew *) the (* TURN BELINDA'S THOUGHTS HAD TAKEN.*)
[[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 within IDEAS AS INTERNAL UTTERANCES}
... 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 within IDEAS AS INTERNAL UTTERANCES}
She (* PULLED HIS FACE INTO HER MIND,*) reacquainting herself with him.
[[Text: source p.128]]
Sara smiled at (* THE MEMORY THAT RUSHED IN ON HER.*)
[[Text: source p.85]]
But she kept that part of the story from Belinda, too. (* SECRETS WERE PILING
UP BETWEEN THEM.*)
[[Text: source p.85]]
Sara (* FELT HER OWN SARCASM COLLIDE WITH THE MEMORY *) of holding
Anthony as he cried.
[[Text: source p.84]]
{nesting within thought/feeling}
... but it wasn't her own (* imagination *)---it was Anthony's. ... He knew he had
conquered her, (* SUPERIMPOSED HIS THOUGHTS ONTO HERS.*)
[[Text: source p.72]]
(* THE MEMORY WAS STORED IN HER BODY, IN HER TISSUES, AND MAYBE IT WOULD NEVER
LEAVE HER.*) (* THINGS SEEMED TO BRING IT TO LIFE *) ...
[[Text: source p.62]]
It had to do with (* the hole in a corner of her soul, where nothing ever came
to fill it. it was dark, cold, and Belinda couldn't stop visiting it. HER
MEMORIES PULLED HER THERE, BACK TO THE FIRE THAT EXPLODED IN HER *) at the
actual moment of birth, and the way she immediately began aching for the
child---her child---...
[[Text: source p.62]]
He (* PAUSED TO ARRANGE HIS IDEAS *) and then went on.
[[Text: source p.145]]
Stumbling over his words, surprised by (* A FLOCK OF IDEAS THAT DIDN'T FIT INTO
*) the previous patterns, ...
[[Text: source p.136]]
Bracken began to move, stirring himself into the action which he knew he must
take and which now (* NO LONGER CAST A SINGLE SHADOW OF FEAR INTO HIS HEART.*)
[[Text: source p.627]]
The (* EMOTIONAL GLUE THAT BINDS *) members of a sect to a leader ...
[[Text: source]]
In many cases, the (* ANTAGONISMS SURFACED *) dramatically with the collapse of
the communist bloc ...
[[Text: source]]
It has shocked modern secular states, (* OVERTURNED PRIOR ANALYSES *) and sent
splintering tremors through societies around the world, according to an
international team of specialists.
[[Text: source]]
{incld. here on assumption that analyses are mental entities}
Ready to straighten up? This common condition that contorts spine and
self-image is __correctable__[underlined]!
[[Text: source]]
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.
[[Text: source p.314]]
{NB: could just be that ``warm ... thoughts'' involves a metonymy: the warmth
is literal and caused by the thoughts.}
She tried to remember her husband, but all she could (* FIND *) of her almost
vanished love was a strange notion as of a room with windows kept shut for a
long time.
[[Text: source p.41-42]]
Had Susie come back to taunt him, appear to him in nightmare, remind him of (*
THINGS HE HAD TRIED TO LOCK UP LIKE A BARRED AND SHUTTERED room?*)
[[Text: source p.475]]
Every morning, (* SHE FOLDED THE DREAMS AWAY WITH HER PYJAMAS.*) (* BUT THEY
FLOATED UP AGAIN AND HOVERED ROUND THE BEDSIT, SUPERIMPOSED THEMSELVES ON THE
PHOTOS IN HER TEXTBOOKS *) ...
[[Text: source p.453]]
He longed to recompense her, shower her with gifts and flowers, make up for the
months and months of (* MISERY HE HAD DUMPED ON HER *) instead.
[[Text: source p.311]]
He closed his eyes, tried to plan his overseas campaign. [NP] (* ALL THE
DIFFERENT COUNTRIES WERE RUNNING INTO EACH OTHER, MELTING IN THE HEAT.*)
[[Text: source p.127-128]]
{Included here on assumption that there's metonymy of OBJECT-FOR-IDEA.}
That one short line had thrown him into confusion, (* SENT HIS
MIND AND EMOTIONS SPINNING AGAIN, WHEN HE HAD SPENT ALL LAST NIGHT IMPOSING
TIGHT CONTROLS.*)
[[Text: source p.121]]
School had been a safe and solid place where (* EMOTIONS WERE CROPPED AS SHORT
AS HAIR *) and the outside world labelled strictly out of bounds.
[[Text: source p.120-121]]
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]]
{NB: memories as *shared* physical objects}
He was tired. Not just from the drive, the miles, the constant fear
and fretting about his mother, but from all (* THE PAINFUL MEMORIES THAT
LENGTHENED WITH THE ROAD. JENNIFER COULDN'T FEEL THEM.*)
[[Text: source p.18]]
Human thought is easily able to (* break the rules of logic and physics, and at
that moment, Gerard was able to think and feel a very large number of vivid,
even clear, things at the same time.*) He thought chiefly about Jenkin,
Jenkin's death and the accident which had caused it, ...
[[Text: source p.580]]
{idea that the reported state breaks the laws of physics suggests that the
ideas are thought of as physical things or states}
Have I perhaps simply created another monster? (In the very process however of
(* UNROLLING THESE AWFUL THOUGHTS *) ...)
[[Text: source p.510]]
At times (* THE OLD HORRORS STILL SEEMED LIKE UNASSIMILABLE MATTER, STONES,
DARTS, THE POISONED HEADS OF BROKEN ARROWS.*)
[[Text: source p.492]]
... and (* SHE GUARDED HER CURIOUS KNOWLEDGE *) of him like the emblem of a
forbidden religion.
[[Text: source p.477]]
... part or aspect of (* SOME ENORMOUS PACKAGE, SOMETHING AS LARGE AS THE
WORLD, WHICH *..) in being with her again (..* HE ACCEPTED.*)
[[Text: source p.438]]
(* HE MEDITATED FOR A WHILE, WATCHING HIS THOUGHTS AT FIRST SCAMPERING, THEN
DRIFTING.*)
[[Text: source p.430]]
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]]
(* I MUST DROWN THESE THOUGHTS.*)
[[Text: source p.415]]
... (* THE SPRAINED ANKLE HAD ASSUMED A SPECIAL IMPORTANCE, SYMBOL PERHAPS OF
DEEPER AND MORE PAINFUL DISLOCATIONS.*)
[[Text: source p.401]]
... how much of that (* DELICATELY BALANCED PICTURE OF MOTIVE AND DECISIONS,
WHICH HE HAD BEEN SO LONG CONSTRUCTING AND HAD NOW BEEN COMPLETED, HAD BEEN
SHIFTED, EVEN SERIOUSLY DAMAGED,*) by Gerard's extraordinary move?
[[Text: source p.370]]
There was (* ANOTHER PIECE OF THE PUZZLE, OLD AND FADED BUT STILL THERE,
WHICH HAD BEEN JOLTED BY GERARD'S SURPRISING DECLARATION.*) There was the
question of Rose.
[[Text: source p.370]]
(* THE CONCEPTION *..) of democratic parliamentary party government (..* IS NOW
A BARRIER TO THOUGHT WHICH MUST BE GOT RID OF.*)
[[Text: source]]
The terrible aliveness of the child absorbed her to a degree which almost (*
SWALLOWED THOUGHT,*) ...
[[Text: source p.325]]
... she thought she would have to kill herself,
(* THE IDEA OF DOING SO WAS INDEED THE ONLY BARRIER AGAINST MADNESS.*)
[[Text: source p.322]]
Easily (* RELEASING HIS ANCESTORS AND THEIR CHILDHOODS *) Gideon
began to think about some Beckmann drawings ...
[[Text: source p.322]]
{w. OBJECT FOR IDEA metonymy}
As he walked along he (* BANISHED THE PROBLEM,*) he would have another idea
about it later.
[[Text: source p.321]]
... we've got to see how (* DISJOINTED *..) it all is. You think
of yourself as an open-minded pluralist -- but you've got (..* A SIMPLE COMPACT
LITTLE PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE, ALL UNIFIED, ALL TIED UP COMFORTABLY TOGETHER, A FEW
SOOTHING IDEAS *) ...
[[Text: source p.299]]
Gerard took a moment to understand what Crimond meant (* SO FAR HAD IT BEEN
FROM HIS THOUGHTS.*)
[[Text: source p.289]]
(* GERARD'S THOUGHTS ABOUT JENKIN, TENDING FOR SOME TIME IN A CERTAIN
DIRECTION, WERE NOW APPROACHING CRISIS POINT.*)
[[Text: source p.274]]
(* AN IRRESISTIBLE IMPULSE OF JOY JOINED THEM,*) Gerard's arm was round Lily's
waist, her hand gripped his shoulder with an unexpected strength.
[[Text: source p.260]]
... like a close but calm friend, (* DETACHED, SURVEYING BUT NOT SWEPT INTO THE
DARK POOL OF GRIEF.*)
[[Text: source p.217]]
Then the next instant, it became something horrible which he had done, (* HIS
OWN DISGUSTING BLACK MISERY EXTERNALISED AS IF HIS TORTURED BODY HAD SICKED IT
UP.*)
[[Text: source]]
(* THESE WERE THOUGHTS WHICH, DETACHED FROM ANY MANAGEABLE REALITY, LED AWAY
TOWARDS MADNESS.*)
[[Text: source]]
Was Jean, then, already Crimond's mistress? (* THIS WAS POISONOUS FOOD FOR MUCH
THOUGHT.*)
[[Text: source]]
{NB: PRODUCTIVE VARIATION of stock phrase.}
(* DUNCAN'S OBSESSIVE SUBJECT WAS OF COURSE LARGE AND ALLOWED HIM THE ACTIVITY
OF TURNING ROUND ITS DIFFERENT FACETS.*)
[[Text: source p.178]]
... (* A BLACK MACHINE WAS WORKING FRENZIEDLY INSIDE HIS HEAD. BLACKNESS, THAT
WAS WHAT HE EXPERIENCED, A FEELING OF BLACKNESS OVER EVERYTHING, A BLACK VEIL
OVER THE LAMP, BLACK DUST UPON THE FURNITURE, BLACK STAINS UPON HIS HANDS, AND
A BLACK CANCEROUS LUMP IN HIS STOMACH. HE WAS NOT SURE WHETHER IT WAS BETTER TO
SUFFER THE BLACKNESS AS A GREAT TOTALITY OF DEADLY MISERY, OR TO ANALYSE IT
INTO CONNECTED PORTIONS WHICH COULD BE SEPARATELY REHEARSED.*)
[[Text: source p.176]]
(* SHE REFLECTED, AND THIS WAS *ANOTHER DARK BLUR OR PAIN-POINT IN HER NEW
LIFE,*) that ...
[[Text: source p.170]]
(* SUCH THOUGHTS DID APPEAR, SWIFT AS BLACK PASSING SWALLOWS IN THE CLEAR
BRIGHT AIR OF HER LOVE. SHE DID NOT EITHER QUESTION OR SUPPRESS THESE
REPROACHFUL BLURS AND STREAKS, *) ...
[[Text: source p.168]]
{NB: SERIALLY MIXED METAPHOR??: swallows viewed as blurs or streaks.}
(* PERHAPS THE FLAILING MONSTERS WERE MONSTERS OF JEALOUSY.*)
[[Text: source p.135]]
Tamar had early understood (* THE HUGE DARK MASS OF HER MOTHER'S BITTERNESS,*)
...
[[Text: source p.107]]
(* UNCERTAINTY HAD BEEN A RESTLESS TORMENT, BUT CERTAINTY, CLARITY, WAS A HELL
FIRE FROM WHICH, IN WHICH, ONE RAN SCREAMING.*)
[[Text: source p.86]]
The sleeping presence ... (* CALMED GERARD'S PAINFUL THOUGHTS, HELD THEM OFF A
LITTLE, CATCHING THEIR SHARPNESS AS IN A SOFT BANDAGE.*)
[[Text: source p.52]]
... Gerard was, (* IN THE SWIFT ZIGZAG OF HIS THOUGHT, THINKING OF HOW *) ...
[[Text: source p.23]]
... [something that was] (* NEVER EVEN IN THEIR THOUGHTS TURNED OVER, AS ONE TURNS OVER MEMORIES,
REWORKING, REFURBISHING, EXPOSING TO AIR CHANGE. IT LAY RATHER IN THEIR PAST AS
A SEALED PACKAGE WHICH THEY SOMETIMES VERY GENTLY TOUCHED BUT NEVER, ALONE OR
TOGETHER, ENVISAGED OPENING.*)
[[Text: source p.7]]
... although (* HER MINGLED LAYERS OF THOUGHT *) were by no means entirely
happy.
[[Text: source p.6]]
(* I TOSSED MY BODY AND MY THOUGHTS TO AND FRO,*) ...
[[Text: source p.335]]
{NB: avoidance of zeugma}
...a dialectical change, the end of a nightmare, (* THE BREAKING OF SOMETHING
WHICH CAN NOW NATURALLY FRAGMENT AWAY.*)
[[Text: source p.266]]
`Her ghost,' he said slowly, `not her at all, but something else, made up of
the vile stuff, (* THE RAGS AND TATTERS OF MY MIND, AND SOPPING UP SOMEHOW,
BLACKENED AND STAINED BY, ALL THAT AWFUL HATRED [originally for someone else]
AND PASSION for revenge---*)'
[[Text: source p.264]]
But the fact --- have I forgotten that I killed her, have I changed
that into (* SOMETHING HUGE AND DARK, WRAPPING IT ROUND *..) as the
years went by with my (..* MISERY AND MY GUILT: THE BURDEN *..) which I had
told Kitty that I could not name? Was this the thing which, for Gunnar, (..* I
must UNWRAP? *..) The thing which he too had (* WRAPPED ABOUT, WITH MISERY AND
HATE AND EMPTY DREAMS OF REVENGE.*)
[[Text: source]]
I'd (* SLOSHED THE TWO THINGS TOGETHER.*)
[[Speech: source]]
Another theory is that in attempting to distract ourselves from one thought by
thinking of another, the brain creates associations between the two thoughts.
As a result, the distracting thought actually helps to (* BRING BACK THE
THOUGHT *) it was intended to (* mask.*)
[[Text: source]]
We regarded (* thoughts as but a step away from deeds,*) and
admonished ourselves---or were admonished by others---to (* SQUELCH THE
INAPPROPRIATE NOTIONS *) at every turn.
[[Text: source]]
In many ways, (* MY WHOLE SENSE OF MYSELF WAS EMBEDDED
IN THE FACT *) of my parents' death in an automobile wreck when I was five.
[[Text: source]]
In his present state of near-certainty which is still uncertainty, it would be
unthinkable to leave here and drive home, (* TO CARRY WITH HIM A DOUBT THAT
WOULD GROW LIKE A RAT.*)
[[Text: source]]
{NB: zeugma-avoidance: drive home / carry doubt}
(* 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 INTERNAL UTTERANCES}
It was her telling him that ... which (* SPARKED OFF HIS DOUBTS.*) ...
[NP] He couldn't quite believe it. She was (* EMBROIDERING THE TRUTH,*)
that was all.
[[Text: source]]
the only (* ALLOY TO HIS CONTENTMENT *..) being the niggling (..* CONCERN *)
which ...
[[Text: source]]
But none of these (* INVASIONS OF HIS EQUILIBRIUM *) had (* OVERWHELMED HIS
WAKING THOUGHTS *) as ...
[[Text: source]]
He stroked my hair, and waited patiently until I could (* GATHER MY
THOUGHTS, stop my mind whirling in a hundred directions at once.*)
[[Text: source]]
{NB: PARALLEL MIXING??}
Just talking about it had (* BROUGHT THE WHOLE EPISODE BACK,*) ...
[[Text: source]]
{METONYMY: THING-FOR-IDEA}
`What's up,' she blurted out. He seemed to (* HAVE DIFFICULTY PUTTING
HIS THOUGHTS TOGETHER.*)
[[Text: source]]
I would be so nice to have someone, especially someone with his sort of style.
[NP] (* I PUSHED AWAY THAT OTHER THOUGHT THAT SAID THAT,*) at his age, he
was probably married or at least living with someone.
[[Text: source]]
... and yet (* I RECAPTURED THAT MOMENT WHEN *) our eyes locked,
and I felt weak, silly, happy.
[[Text: source]]
{METONYMY: THING-FOR-IDEA}
He had (* given me back that belief *) that anything was possible, when my (*
FAITH IN MYSELF HAD PERHAPS BEGUN TO GET FRAYED AT THE EDGES.*)
[[Text: source]]
I had been enjoying it all, I really had, until (* MY EUPHORIA HAD BEGUN TO
EVAPORATE.*) Not all at once, but gradually.
[[Text: source]]
All these things (* FLOWED THROUGH U Po Kyin's MIND SWIFTLY *) and for the
most part in pictures.
[[Text: source]]
My mother was sick. (* SHE KNEW THINGS BUT THEY WERE MIXED UP IN HER, LIKE BEES
OR PLASTER LETTERS OF AN ALPHABET STREWN IN DRAWERS.*)
[[Text: source]]
[The children and their parents] were lovers, their bond physical, meant
and necessary, with (* GOLD FLASHES OF HATE, THE UNDERSIDE OF ARDOR.*)
[[Text: source]]
Timothy was a person you went to for absolution because there was something
contained and steady about his life. (* I HAD SO MANY RAGGED EDGES, SO MANY
DESIRES.*)
[[Text: source]]
(* The lid of my consciousness has become thinner,*) thanks to my
trials. I now begin to (* see beyond my former daily perceptions,*) of a closed
material world. Gleams and flashes come to me: the close sense of great
movement in the world just beyond our own, (* THE SENSE OF His Presence and
Intention HOVERING, FOCUSED, ABOVE US---ALMOST, I MAY SAY, LIKE A CLOUD.*..)
Yes, like a cloud, (..* WHICH GATHERS SLOWLY AND THICKENS, BLOTTING OUT THE
LIGHT OF THE SUN WITH ITS INTENTION, WITH THE MOIST DEPOSIT FOR EARTH THAT IT
CONTAINS.
[[Text: source]]
... through (* EROSION OF MY HAPPINESS AND SELF-INTEREST *) ...
[[Text: source]]
Joanna and Mr. Wroe. Mr. Wroe and Joanna. Still (* A FACT, LODGED LIKE A
LUMP OF FOOD IN MY GULLET; IT WINDS ME, BUT I CAN NEITHER CHOKE IT UP TO TASTE,
NOR SWALLOW IT DOWN TO DIGEST IT.*)
[[Text: source]]
... ---teach me acceptance, I pray You, that the (* PIERCING REGRETS AND TERRORS
IN MY HEART *) may be (* QUIETED.*)
[[Text: source]]
This will be done, oh Lord, though it involve (* THE BREAKING OF MY
HEART AND MY HOPES,*) ...
[[Text: source]]
{zeugma-avoidance?}
They believe the world will end --- very soon. This was always Brothers'
belief --- and indeed my father's. Ironically enough, that terrible thought (*
comes to me now as a safe old friend. My father's (* BELIEFS ARE STILL PART
OF ME,*) not as (* SPIRITUAL EQUIPMENT *) but as the (* SOLID BRICKS OF
CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCE.*)
[[Text: source]]
Mrs. Crumwallis's (* THOUGHT HAD APPARENTLY GLIDED ELSEWHERE,*) ...
[[Text: source]]
We think increasingly by means of metaphors that we profess not to be
relying on. The metaphors we are avoiding (* STEER OUR THOUGHT *) as much as those
we accept. (Richards, 1936, 92.)
[[Text: source]]
Suddenly, as if the movement of his hand had released it, (* THE LOAD OF HER
ACCUMULATED IMPRESSIONS OF HIM TILTED UP, AND DOWN POURED IN A PONDEROUS
AVALANCHE ALL SHE FELT ABOUT HIM.*)
[[Text: source]]
(* THIS IDEA CRYSTALLIZED THE NEBULOUS MENTAL MEANDERINGS *) ...
[[Text: source p.48]]
{mixed metaphor}
{NB: unuusal case because its the meanderings that are treated as physical object.}
`No,' said the policeman placidly, `he has a fancy for always sitting in a
pitch-dark room. He says it (* MAKES HIS THOUGHTS BRIGHTER.*) Do come along.'
[[Text: source p.48]]
{NB: zeugma-avoidance -- dark/brighter}
... he had begun to feel a third kind of (* FEAR, MORE PIERCING *) ... Very
simply, he had (* NO FEAR TO SPARE *) for the French President or the Czar; he
had begun to (* fear *) for himself.
[[Text: source p.62]]
He had hardly (* THE SHRED OF A DOUBT *) that ... Sunday had
found out that he was a spy.
[[Text: source p.62]]
{NB: nesting}
... but in that moment he (* minded it no more *) than [something
else] ... (* ALL WAS SWALLOWED UP IN AN ULTIMATE CERTAINTY *) that the
President was wrong ...
[[Text: source p.66]]
We are enormously proud of our Ben, but his birth (* DROVE HOME THE REALITY
*) that no matter how emotionally or financially independent you are, there are
some challenges you cannot face alone.
[[Text: source]]
And I am desperately ~TIRED~ of seeing the media (* FUEL SUCH STUPIDITY.*)
[[Text: source]]
As the West's economy has slowed, so has Spain's, (* DISPELLING THE
EUPHORIA *) of the 1980s.
[[Text: source]]
The pace of change has brought PAIN along with prosperity, and 20th-century
(* VICES HAVE MADE AN UNHEALTHY MIX *..) with the traditional Spanish (..*
INCLINATION *) to live for the moment.
[[Text: source]]
... team officials had (* SCANT KNOWLEDGE *) of whom they were selecting.
[[Text: source]]
Ben's fiancee (* HARBORS AN INTENSE SPIRITUAL BENT,*) which only (* SHARPENS
THE HOSTILITY *) of his two daughters, ...
[[Text: source]]
Moreover, the revelations (* CAST FURTHER DOUBT *) on Clifford's insistence
that ...
[[Text: source]]
(*MORE HOPE IS HELD OUT FOR *) a parallel investigation into the
1978 murder of Bulgarian exile Georgi Markov ...
[[Text: source]]
But whatever (* IMPATIENCE HE MAY FEEL IS CUSHIONED BY DEEP AFFECTION *) for
Beijing.
[[Text: source]]
He keeps urging the parties (* TO SET ASIDE *...) what he considers out-moded
words and (...* CONCEPTS *) ...
[[Text: source]]
{nesting}
...this (* TIDY SCENARIO HAD MOSTLY EVAPORATED.*)
[[Text: source]]
It will be even more difficult to lessen the (* RESENTMENTS FESTERING *) on
both sides of the ethnic barrier.
[[Text: source]]
But he didn't (* PUSH THE IDEA,*) ...
[[Text: source]]
Last week George Bush's health problems forced Americans to (* CONFRONT THE
REALITY *) that Quayle, ready or not, was no more than a fluttering heartbeat
away from the Oval Office.
[[Text: source]]
Lastly, it [a modern society] achieves innovation through a (* CLASH OF IDEAS.*)
[[Text: source]]
Is it possible to (* SEPARATE THE FACTS *...) about
modernization---industrialism, technology, economic diversity---from the (...*
VALUES and ATTITUDES *) that make such things possible in the first place?
[[Text: source]]
Since 1978, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping has looked to the West as a source of
technology and funds while trying to (* SCREEN OUT Western BELIEFS.*)
[[Text: source]]
Phillips Petroleum has been national sponsor of United States Diving since
1979. And will continue to support this organization for many years to come.
Because if our youths can take determination and achievement o this altitude,
(* OUR HOPES FOR THE FUTURE ARE HIGH INDEED.*)
[[Text: source]]
{has a punning element, but on the other hand does suggest the liveness of the
notion of ``high'' hopes}
Like the idealistic hero of ``Field of Dreams,'' (* WHO FUSED COUNTERCULTURAL
SENTIMENTS WITH BUSH-ERA CONSERVATISM,*) ...
[[Text: source]]
Morris and Jones have some important concerns in common, especially issues of
sexual politics, but while Morris's work is a study in conscientious irony, (*
JONES MASTERFULLY LAYS BARE HIS HEART, HIS MIND AND HIS VERY GUTS.*)
[[Text: source]]
{NB: zeugma-avoidance}
But this (* FACT IS GETTING DROWNED IN ANXIETY.*)
[[Text: source]]
But the shadow of history (* HAS PILED EXTRA ANXIETY ONTO ALREADY EXAGGERATED
FEARS *) about the recession.
[[Text: source]]
`We've never seen (* CONFIDENCE COLLAPSE THIS DEEP *) before
an actual slowdown,' says Jason Bram of the Conference Board, which
tracks consumer attitudes. `We think the war threat, and maybe even
this fall's long tax battle, (* HURT CONFIDENCE *) as much as economic
weakness.'
[[Text: source]]
So why has (* CONSUMER CONFIDENCE SUDDENLY SUNK TO LEVELS *) seen only in the
depths of harsh recessions (chart)?
[[Text: source]]
As corporate ties to environmentalists (* GROW, SO DO STRAIN AND SKEPTICISM
*)
[[Text: source]]
{NB: zeugma-avoidance}
The shift in policy reflects (* A GROWING SENSE IN WASHINGTON *) that, with
the cold war over, the united states has little take in the conflict ...
[[Text: source]]
Although Walesa no longer boasts he will win 80 percent of the vote, (* HE
RADIATES CONFIDENCE *) that he will exceed the 50 percent required for victory
in the first round despite the presence of four mnor candidates.
[[Text: source]]
But even so, by picking up on one seat, (* THE DEMOCRATS EFFECTIVELY BLOCKED
ANY REPUBLICAN HOPES *) for 1992, when they'd need seven seats for a
majority.
[[Text: source]]
As the weeks pass, most of the families have tried to establish a routine
that (* BLOCKS OUT THOUGHTS OF THE DESERT.*)
[[Text: source]]
Few expected to face such a dangerous mission quite so abruptly. For
Marine Cpl. Craig Armstrong, 22, (* THE REALITY SANK IN *) when he had to follow
regulations and send his wedding ring to his next of kin.
[[Text: source]]
The (* REASONS *...) you give for opposing war are all (* SOLID *) and (*
thoughtful *), but it is surprising and upsetting that "peace" is only
mentioned five times.
[[Text: source]]
This (* PRINCIPLE, DISTILLED FROM MANY HISTORICAL JUDGEMENTS,*) is broadly
right but not sufficient.
[[Text: source]]
... by defining America as greedy, corrupt, racist, etc., the left
(* UNDERMINES THE CONSENSUS *) that is required for strong collective action.
[[Text: source]]
Then Vietnam and Watergate (* SPREAD CYNICISM *) about government's
motives.
[[Text: source]]
The war with Spain and two world wars and Korea and Vietnam and the Gulf War
are only America's largest combat experiences since the explosion in the Maine.
(* THAT EXPLOSION SHOWERED SPARKS ON THE DRY TINDER OF AMERICAN NATIONALISM *)
and detonated the "splendid little war" ...
[[Text: source]]
Contrary to what the ads for local news shows say, real journalists keep
their (* FEELINGS FROM GETTING IN THE WAY.*)
[[Text: source]]
Beyond all that, for many in the services, Desert Storm (* ASSUAGED THE UGLY
MEMORY *) of Vietnam. "The (* stigma *) of Vietnam has been (* erased *),"
said an Army officer at the Pentagon.
[[Text: source]]
Then I have plenty of time (* TO SIFT THROUGH WHAT WENT WRONG.*)
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(* GET THE FACTS ON FOOD.*) Generally, ships have enough of a variety to
please even picky eaters.
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In fact, it's not even unusual for a caregiver to disapprove of a
woman's leaving her infant or toddler in child care in order to work.
(* THAT FEELING SEEMS TO COLOR HER OPINION *) of the mother's parenting
abilities.
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(* INTRODUCE YOUR YOUNGSTER TO THE IDEA *) of shopping as an exchange by
asking her to hand the money to a cashier.
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"I dispute the notion that there is one moment to bond. I disagree
that, as the word suggests, there is (* AN EPOXY GLUELIKE FUSION BINDING
TOGETHER *) mother or father and child," writes Ellen Galinsky, ...
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"It is absurd to think that your relationship with your
baby might falter or fail because (* NO LIGHTNING BOLT BONDED YOU
TOGETHER *) on the delivery table," says Penelope Leach, ...
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{nesting}
The mothers' (* feelings *) depended on many factors other than the simple
contact with their newborns. Their desire to have a child, the length of
labor, their fatigue or drowsiness due to anesthetics and the presence of their
partners in the delivery room all (* STRONGLY COLORED THE MOTHERS' FEELINGS OF
LOVE AND JOY.*)
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Holding my baby should have been one of the greatest events in my
life, but when they placed Eric on my abdomen, (* THERE WAS NO MAGIC
SPARK.*) At that moment I had the awful feeling that I would be a
terrible mother.
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Say the word "ritual" and you are likely to (* CONJURE UP IMAGES *) of a
mysterious ancient rite ...
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In families, however, new rituals can be born daily,
(* IN A FLASH OF SHEER INSPIRATION *) ...
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The ideals propounded in the film are the enemy of selfishness and (* AN
ANTIDOTE TO CYNICISM.*)
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The light in his father's eyes created (* A GLOW INSIDE JOE THAT CONTINUES TO
WARM HIM *) THESE MANY YEARS LATER.
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Many times over the years I've wondered how Joe (* ACQUIRED SO SOLID A SENSE
OF WHO HE WAS AND WHAT HE STOOD FOR.*)
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Those few minutes can go a long way toward (* KEEPING EXCITEMENT IN CHECK *)
and (* TURNING AROUND DISAPPOINTMENTS AND TENSIONS BEFORE THEY REACH THE
EXPLOSIVE STAGE.*)
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One of the negative messages of selecting money is that no effort went
into it. (* HOW MUCH THOUGHT DOES IT TAKE *) to pick out just the "right"
bill?
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It took awhile, but she finally saw through (* THE "THOUGHT" BEHIND HER
HUSBAND'S SELECTION.*)
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Remember, what's important is (* THE MEANING YOU ATTACH TO THE GIFT.*)
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Good givers also (* recognize *) the many faces, and facets, of their mates:
serious and frivolous, down-to-earth today and maybe a little wild and
romantic tomorrow. (* THAT WAS THE SPIRIT BEHIND THE PRESENTS *) Ward gave
recently to his new wife, Julie, a bookkeeper.
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{an idea encountering a resisting idea}
{an idea moving under its own momentum}
{ideas overcoming an obstacle}
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they evoke a shattered world where the (* SHARP BROKEN-GLASS EDGES OF PAIN
*...) have yet to be (...* SMOOTHED BY TIME AND AWARENESS.*)
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(* I AM A PARCEL OF VAIN STRIVINGS TIED BY A CHANCE BOND TOGETHER *)
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stirring up layers of mud-encrusted memories.
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In the Eastern bloc, however, the silhouettes of democratic ****thought**** ,
however faint, are part of the national birthright.
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In times of crisis, it [denial] allows us to function by (* SHIELDING US FROM INTERNAL
PAIN.*)
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Whether triggered by our not wanting to acknowledge our shortcomings or by
our not wanting to (* CONFRONT OUR FEARS *), ...
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(* SELF-DELUSION CAN BE A REAL STUMBLING BLOCK TO HAPPINESS, *)
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Feeling (* YOUR DEFENSES SKYROCKET *) or lashing out in anger at someone you
respect may also signal a problem, ...
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It took the discovery of a bloody syringe under her bathroom sink to (*
SHATTER HER DENIAL *) of Stephen's drug problem and of the nightmare she'd
bought into.
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And certainly dysfunctional families with destructive tendencies toward
physical, sexual, or substance abuse provide (* FERTILE GROUND FOR THE
PROMULGATION OF SELF-DECEPTION.*)
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Whatever the reason, some truths are just too hard for us to accept. "There
may be (* A FLICKER OF RECOGNITION, BUT IT'S SNUFFED OUT *) immediately," says
Los Angeles psychologist Susan Brace.
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"The goal is to remember what the event felt like and then (* INTEGRATE IT
WITH THE REST OF CONSCIOUSNESS *)" says Sadoff.
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Although a business can CLAIM ALL OF YOUR TIME AND THOUGHT, ...
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Because these (* VALUES ARE IN FLUX,*) ...
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Privacy is a (* LARGE IDEA *) to teach, and it has to (* INCLUDE *) more than
sexuality.
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So far parents' (* WORRIES SEEM OVER-BLOWN,*...) with the exception of (...*
CONCERN *) about the atmosphere of the arcades themselves.
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We all (* CARRY into our marriages MEMORIES *) of how our families celebrated
occasions, so it's important to understand your mate's family history before
you go out shopping.
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Clearly, (* THE THOUGHT THAT GOES INTO THE PRESENT *) counts. For some
receivers the process plays a big part in the message.
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{may not manifest the metaphor}