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I want to ask if it was Juliet who hurt you, but (* THERE'S BEEN A POWER
CUT IN THE PART OF THE BRAIN THAT CONTROLS MY SPEECH,*) and my mouth will
not open.
[[Text: source, p.170]]
As soon as I'm alone, my mind goes blank. I ought to be anticipating,
preparing, but all I do is sit completely still while (* THE THIN FABRIC OF
MY CONSCIOUSNESS STRETCHES TO COVER THE CHASM BETWEEN THIS MOMENT AND
THE NEXT.*)
[[Text: source, p.170]]
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]]
{The example is also classified under IDEAS AS PHYSICAL
OBJECTS, and under MIND AS PHYSICAL SPACE because of relative movement of the
bits of thought.}
Unleashed, (* MY MIND THREW OUT great streams of images like a slide show
running on fast-forward, and gradually I learned the knack of reaching
out to catch one as they flew past, holding it lightly and watching as
it unfurled in my hands.*)
[[Text:
p.242]]
{mixed with IDEAS AS EXTERNAL ENTITIES and COGNIZING AS SEEING}
(* A sudden space began to open out, not only between Edward
and his mother, but also between himself and his immediate
circumstances,*) and (* he felt HIS OWN BEING, THE BURIED CORE OF IT HE HAD
NEVER ATTENDED TO BEFORE, COME TO SUDDEN, HARD-EDGED EXISTENCE, A GLOWING
PINPOINT *) that he wanted no one else to know about.
[[Text:
source, p.72]]
{NB mixing with the doubly used metaphor of difference and/or lack of
connection as spatial separation.}
(* SOMETHING HAD CREPT INTO MY BRAIN, A TINY WISP, LIKE
FOG. *..) What? I stared at the darkly glinting sea and (..* TRIED TO CATCH
IT.*)
[[Text:
source, p.320]]
{Serially mixed with a view of the wisp/fog as animate entity.}
I said all these things [to my son Charlie] - ... - (* BUT ONLY A TINY
PART OF ME WAS THERE WITH MY SON. My brain was like a well-occupied
household, activity taking place simultaneously in each of its many
rooms.*)
[[Text:
source, p.99]]
{Second sentence is clearly based on MIND AS PHYSICAL SPACE.
First sentence may possiby be based on MIND AS PHYSICAL OBJECT, though
it is perhaps more plasuibly based on MIND PARTS AS PERSONS.}
Finally, his thinking process (* GOT STUCK, AS IF THE FOLDS OF HIS BRAIN
WERE A BROKEN SCREW.*)
[[Text:
source, p.27]]
{Seems to view the thinking process as a wholesael movement of the
brain. See entry under Mind as
Physical Space for a comment about a metaphor switch, in relation to
preceding sentences.}
During the first few days of the journey he had been so (* TORN *..) with the
raw agony of movement that each forward step his mount took (..* CUT ITSELF
UPON HIS NERVES AND UPON HIS MIND.*)
[[Text:
source, p.86]]
{Pain (and possibly movement) as physical object tearing/cutting the body; and in the "mind"
segment it's mixed with MIND AS PHYSICAL OBJECT. There may be a metonymy
from the forward step to pain caused by it.}
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]]
Next morning (* MY MIND WAS A GUN SCOPE *..) with Locking (..* CENTRED
IN THE CROSSHAIRS.*)
{"Locking" is the name of a person.}
[[Text: source]]
"... (* I SHUT DOWN and just drift away into a world of my own,*)" he
says. "(* I keep things in my head *) and appear relaxed, but (* I
dissociate myself from things. I can go off into a room of my own in my
head *) and not hear a thing anyone is saying."
[[Text:
source]]
{Mixed with / near to: MIND AS WORLD DEFINER, MIND AS PHYSICAL SPACE,
IDEAS AS PHYSICAL OBJECTS, COGNIZING AS INTERACTING WITH NON-OWN-MENTAL THINGS.}
... but trivialities concerning his honor arouse the most shame. This is
because (* THE EGO'S THREADS OF RADIATION NEVER QUITE STOP,*..) even in
the most depraved of us, and we must always think, "Yes, but (..* my
essential honor WASN'T TOUCHED.*) ..."
[[Text:
source p.41]]
(* My mind will always be PUSHED BACK TO THIS FARM,*..) and there is
nothing I can do about it. (..* I will never be able to get away.*)
[[Text:
source p.202]]
{Mixed with COGNIZING AS INTERACTING WITH NON-OWN-MENTAL ENTITIES.}
Frédéric watched Madame Arnoux as he listened to these words. (* they
sank into his mind like metals INTO A FURNACE, adding to his passion and
filling him with love.*)
[[Text:
source p.54]]
... gazing into her eyes and (* drinking in HER SOUL.*)
[[Text:
source p.77]]
{The soul is viewed as a physical object. NB: it is
another agent's soul, not that of the agent doing the drinking.
Mixed with COGNIZING AS INTERACTING WITH NON-OWN-MENTAL ENTITIES.}
... and I simply (* COULD NOT TURN OFF MY CONSCIOUS MIND.*)
[[Text: source p.139]]
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]]
{mixed with MIND AS PHYSICAL SPACE}
(* My anger returned in a rush, fueled by disappointment *): I was sure
we'd reached a break in the case...[NP] (* SHE HEATED UP JUST AS FAST.*)
"I told you at the time she was killed because of her work! You just
were on your usual fucking arrogant head trip and wouldn't pay any
attention to me!"
[[Text: source p.226]]
(* 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]]
(* HE CAST HIS MIND ROUND. *) There ought to be
some way of dealing with a person like this.
[[Text: source p.66]]
(* HIS MENTAL WHEELS ARE OILED *)
[[Text: source]]
(* DON'T ON THE OTHER HAND BE SUSPICIOUS OF THIS APPROACH AND BECOME TAUT. *)
[[Text: source]]
[NP] It was (* ONLY MOMENTUM THAT KEPT Alice's GEARS OF THOUGHT AND ANALYSIS
GRINDING PAST *) any practical application.
[[Text: source p.206]]
(* Her mind came to the rescue,*) the way minds do when the terror is too
much. (* IT SHUT DOWN *)---not completely---but enough that only some images
were processed, some sounds heard, a portion of the pain felt---(* the rest to
be held in trust.*)
A new winter was passing, but (* ITS STEALTHY FOOTPRINTS WERE LEAVING A
PROFOUND IMPRINT IN HIS MEMORY.*)
[[Text: source p.163]]
{NB: mixing w. non-mental metaphor}
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.*)
[[Text: source p.114]]
By making sure that (* OUR SEXUAL IMAGINATIONS WERE WORKING TOGETHER,*) things
were (* heating up.*)
[[Text: source p.114]]
Said Australian Lisa Gent, ...`... It's (*MIND MANIPULATION.*)'
[[Text: source]]
When a romance has you feeling as though you work a second job, (* YOU'VE LET A
CRUCIAL TRUTH SLIP FROM MIND:*) Love is supposed to make you feel good.
[[Text: source]]
Her voice was slimy, like a dying worm, (* BUT IT CLUNG TO THE MIND OF ANY WHO
HEARD IT, SUFFOCATING ANY THOUGHT OF LOVE OR LIGHT OR COLOUR THAT MIGHT ALREADY
BE THERE AND ABORTING ANY ABOUT TO BE BORN.*) Rune, however, wallowed in its
sound.
[[Text: source p.459]]
She somehow found it threatening and disturbing, (* TORN BETWEEN SUSIE'S
EASY-GOING SLUTTISHNESS AND HER OWN MORE STOLID VIEWS.*)
[[Text: source p.225]]
{Mixing with MIND WITHIN PHYSICAL SPACE.}
He could feel (* HIS MIND SHUTTING OFF,*) his limbs relaxing, as heat
engulfed him like a woman's body.
[[Text: source p.127-128]]
He had muttered a jumbled mixture of congratulations and condolences. (*HIS
MIND WAS REELING.*) He felt pleased for Jennifer, worried for her, but how
would this latest news affect his project?
[[Text: source p.123]]
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]]
He couldn't think of death. Every time he tried, (* HIS MIND GLAZED OVER *) or
(* filled with stupid things like hot cross buns or wedding cakes.*)
[[Text: source p.32]]
`[You] do not at all understand (* HOW BLACK AND HOW DESTROYED MY WHOLE MIND
HAS BECOME.*) ... '
[[Text: source]]
If she could only stop Crimond from saying the extraordinary things with which
he was (* WEARING DOWN HER SANITY.*)
[[Text: source p.351]]
... (* A BLACK MACHINE WAS WORKING FRENZIEDLY INSIDE HIS HEAD. BLACKNESS, THAT
WAS WHAT HE EXPERIENCED, A FEELING OF BLACKNESS OVER EVERYTHING, *) ...
[[Text: source p.176]]
Talk with Jenkin always (* SENT WAVES OF FORCE THROUGH GERARD'S MIND, USUALLY
BENEFICENT AND PLEASANT ONES. TODAY HOWEVER THE VIBRATIONS HAD MADE HIM UNEASY
AS IF, THOUGH EVERYTHING SEEMED AS USUAL, THE WAVELENGTH HAD CHANGED.*)
[[Text: source p.135]]
(* WHEREAS GERARD, WHO WAS SO MUCH MORE INTELLECTUALLY COLLECTED AND COHERENT,
FELT SPARSE, EXTENDED, ABSTRACT BY CONTRAST.*) This contrast sometimes made
gerard feel cleverer and more refined, sometimes simply weaker and lacking in
weight.
[[Text: source p.119]]
Some perfect thing, some absolute safety, some ground of being, was, (* WITH
HIS BELIEF IN HIS FATHER'S PERFECT GOODNESS, GONE OUT OF THE WORLD FOREVER.*)
[[Text: source p.60]]
(* 'Arranging things! YOU SHOULD HAVE ARRANGED YOUR MIND,*) stayed here and
done some real thinking.'
[[Text: source p.21]]
Christopher was playing his tabla and there was a fragrant ineffable sense of
togetherness as if (* ALL OUR MINDS WERE LIGHTLY GLUED TOGETHER,*) ...
[[Text: source p.267]]
Such are the remarkable faculties of the human mind, such was my (* mind *) that
morning in the park as (* IT EXPANDED AND REJOICED.*)
[[Text: source p.233]]
{MIND AS ELECTRONIC DEVICE}
{disturbance of thought likened to ``shortcircuiting too large an amount of excitation''}
[[Text: source]]
But he noticed something else about the garden that (* STRUCK HIM HOLLOWLY.*)
[[Text: source]]
(* IT WAS AS IF THOSE EYES TURNED INWARDS TO CONTEMPLATE THE WORKINGS OF HER MIND.*)
[[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??}
Love him she unquestionably did, but still the prospects of offending her
parents (* TORE AT HER SOUL!)
[[Text: source]]
Our minds are nothing but dovecots.
[Text: apres Hoffmannstahl, quoted in D.E. Cooper (1986), Metaphor, p.54]
{Cooper's interpretation: ideas flying in and out}
Hannah has asked me about the history of the church. It gives me pleasure
to (* CAST MY MIND BACK,*) for that (* SWEEP OF MEMORY RETRIEVES MANY INCIDENTS
AND MOMENTS *) ...
[[Text: source]]
{METONYMY: THING FOR IDEAS}
... the enormity [of the lottery win] slowly entered their still (* UNADJUSTED
MINDS *) ...
[[Speech: source]]
In all the (* TORRENT OF HIS THOUGHT *) there were two (* THOUGHTS THAT
NEVER CROSSED HIS MIND.*) First, it never (* occurred *) to him to doubt that
...
[[Text: source p.63]]
{NB: nesting]
Then there (* FELL UPON HIM THE GREAT TEMPTATION *) that was to (* TORMENT
*) him for many days.
[[Text: source p.62]]
When the President's [.e., Sunday's] eyes were on him he felt as if he were (*
MADE OF GLASS.*)
[[Text: source p.62]]
When he rose or sat down, ... something worse was expressed than mere
weakness. ... It did not express decrepitude merely, but corruption. (* A
HATEFUL FANCY CROSSED SYME'S QUIVERING MIND.*) He could not help (* thinking *)
that whenever the man moved a leg or arm might fall off.
[[Text: source p.60]]
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]]
" ... (* IN THEIR CRYSTAL BALLS, IN THEIR MINDS, BUSINESS LEADERS THINK THAT *) ..."
[[Speech: source]]
{wording is approximate and by memory}
(* EVERYONE IS A MOON, AND HAS A DARK SIDE WHICH HE NEVER SHOWS *) to anybody
[[Text: source]]
(* I AM A PARCEL OF VAIN STRIVINGS *) tied by a chance bond together
[[Text: source]]
(* I TURN DIFFERENT FACETS OF MYSELF *) towards the window.
[[Speech: source]]
Though (* INCEST HAS COLORED EVERY ASPECT OF HER LIFE *...), from her (...*
DRIVE *...) to overachieve to her (...* FEAR *) of physical and emotional
intimacy, ...
[[Text: source]]