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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 IDEAS AS INTERNAL UTTERANCES; and mixing with
IDEAS AS PHYSICAL OBJECTS (separately in (a) the *relief
... immense ... obliterated" and (b) "lined up in formation")}
This is the problem with having been brought up in an Orthodox Jewish
home, with those ancient stories about (* Torah scrolls that debate with
each other,*) ... (* THERE'S STILL A PART OF ME THAT BELIEVES THAT books can talk. THAT
ISN'T SURPRISED WHEN they start to do it.*) And, naturally, (* books in my
father's house would be hyper-critical. I could hear them, in that room,
whispering to each other: no grandchildren, they said, not even a
husband. ...*)
[[Text: p.74/5]]
{Embedding of idea that books can talk, metaphorically developed across
the context, within a use of MIND PARTS AS PERSONS.}
... (* 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.
[NP] (..* THE TWO SEM-CONSCIOUS PARTS OF JACKSON'S BRAIN FINALLY
COMMUNICATED WITH EACH OTHER. THIS WAS A SLOWER PROCESS THAN IT USED TO
BE -- Jackson imagined SIGNAL FLAGS RATHER THAN HIGH-SPEED
BROADBAND. One day, he supposed, THE DIFFERENT PARTS OF HIS BRAIN WOULD
FIND THEY WERE UNABLE TO INTERPRET THE MESSAGES. FLAGS WAVING HELPLESSLY
IN THE WIND.*) And that would be it. Senility. [EP]
[[Text: source]]
{Mixing with IDEAS AND EMOTIONS AS PHYSICAL OBJECTS ("dredged"). Also
note the imputation of rich mental use of the communicating brain-parts
metaphor to Jackson himself.}
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 is only tentatively categorized as based on MIND PARTS AS
PERSONS, as the part of the speaker that is "with" her son is possibly
being viewed as a person. So perhaps a "room" of the house is doubling
as a person, or the person is an occupant of the room. But there may be
better analyses e.g. possibly a case of MIND (or mind-part) AS PHYSICAL
OBJECT - Miscellaneous?}
(* A SNEAKING, MALICIOUS VOICE IN HER SUBCONSCIOUS WHISPERED THAT *) her interest
was simply due to his appearance, ...
[[Text: source, p.37]]
{NB: mixing with IDEAS AS INTERNAL UTTERANCES}
Each time, (* HER FATALISTIC SIDE TOLD HER *) she had no control over her future.
[[Text: source, p.148]]
{NB: mixing with IDEAS AS INTERNAL UTTERANCES}
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}
(* A PART OF Diaz-Varela MUST HAVE LONGED *..) every day for his bosom
pal to die, to vanish, and (..* THAT SAME PART, OR AN EVEN LARGER PART
PERHAPS, WOULD HAVE REJOICED *) at the news of his unexpected death by
stabbing, a death with which he would have had nothing to do.
[[Text: source]]
(* PART OF HIM WAS SHOUTING THAT *) [Barbara's career] bloody well
deserved to be sunk. ... (* He knew [that it was sunk]
intellectually. It was emotionally that he couldn't accept [it].*) (*
HIS HEART WAS ARGUING THAT *) she'd had very good reasons for betraying
every tenet of their profession ...
[[Text: source, p.532]]
{The bit about the heart could be (parallel or serial) mix with MIND AS
ANIMATE BEING or LIVING BODY. It also involves IDEAS AS INTERNAL
UTTERANCES, as does the bit about shouting.}
There was (* A PIECE OF ME THAT THOUGHT *) I would do this ...
[[Speech: source]]
There's (* A BIT OF ME THAT THINKS *) [that] ...
[[Speech: source]]
And the moment, (* APPLEBY'S TEMPORARILY UNGOVERNED INTUITION ASSERTED,*) was
the cardinal moment in the St. Anthony's case ...
[[Text: source, p.212]]
... (* A BIT OF ME THINKS THAT *) ...
[[Speech: source]]
... (* SOME PART OF ME CAN ALLOW MYSELF TO BELIEVE,*) for a
period of time without questioning, ...
[[Text: source]]
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]]
{NB: Size of a mind-part suggests importance of the thought.
Also: Mixed with IDEAS AS INTERNAL UTTERANCES.}
Perhaps (* A PART OF MY MOTHER'S MIND *..) she did not know about (..* was making
sure *) she got pregnant then.
[[Text: source]]
Did I believe this? I did not, but (* watched this pattern running *)
(* IN ONE PART OF MIND WHILE ANOTHER COMMENTED ON IT IN DERISION.*)
[[Text: source, p.389]]
{Mixing with COGNIZING AS SEEING.}
Once or twice (* THE BETTER SIDE OF HER DID WANT *) to
tell Daddy to write to the unknown lady and invite her to come to tea,
but every day she found herself putting it off till the next day.
[[Text: source]]
(* MY CONSCIENCE TWISTED UNCOMFORTABLY.*)
[[Text: source p.29]]
(* MY AVARICIOUS SIDE *) - stunned into shocked silence...(* WOKE UP BRIEFLY TO
LOOK ROUND THE PLANE *) and say, I want one! (* WHILE 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]]
... but (* SOMETHING INSIDE HER FELT THAT *)
rape was her just punishment for stumbling so many times in her life.
[[Text: source p.242]]
Toward twelve o'clock he put the padlock on the door and (* WENT TO FEED HIS
MEMORY SOMETHING.*)
[[Text: source p.172]]
[Woman in TV ad for a laxative says:]
(* PART OF YOU WANTS something strong that works.
PART OF YOU WANTS something gentle that comforts.*)
{on start second sentence, image of the woman splits into two images of her}
[Butler in a cereal ad on TV:]
I can't deny that (* PART OF ME DESIRES frosting.*)
[[no.2 in Speech: source]]
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 IDEAS AS INTERNAL UTTERANCES}
(* SOME CRAZY IRRATIONAL PART OF HER ALMOST EXPECTED *) to see Lyn waiting
there, come to meet her train.
[[Text: source p.366]]
He could see, he thought, her terrible unhappiness, an unhappiness which
made his (* SYMPATHETIC SENTIMENTAL (she had used that word) SOUL WINCE AND
CRINGE,*) ...
[[Text: source p.510]]
{NB: nesting wothin thought}
Obviously religion rested on something real; (* SHE LET HER REASON SLEEP ON
THAT.*)
[[Text: source p.491]]
After all, (* WHAT YOUR BEST SELF, YOUR MOST TRUTHFUL SOUL DESIRES *) must be
real, and not to worry too much about what it's called.
[[Text: source p.489]]
The little infinitesimal spark of hope which she had gained simply from
Jenkin's presence was extinguished. It was blackness again, ravaged, smashed,
crushed, pulverised blackness, like the night after the earthquake, only the
dark was silent, (* THERE WERE NO VOICES, NO ONE WAS THERE, ONLY HERSELF, HER
VAST AWFUL SMASHED UP SELF.*)
[[Text: source p.485]]
{NB: mixing with COGNIZING AS SEEING and MIND-AS-BODY.}
Now (* COMMON SENSE, SUDDENLY ENTERING through some amazing hole in the mad
argument, INFORMED DUNCAN THAT *) ...
[[Text: source p.464]]
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 p.432]]
{NB: nesting within IDEAS AS INTERNAL UTTERANCES}
(* HER FEELINGS *..) about this state of affairs, though not by any means as
callous as those she had expressed to Gideon, were certainly (..* MIXED. PART
OF HER WAS ACTUALLY PLEASED TO SEE HER DAUGHTER UNHAPPY, THE SAME PART WHICH
WOULD HAVE BEEN AFFRONTED TO SEE HER HAPPY.*..) There was, (..* TO THIS WAY OF
THINKING,*..) a sort of justice in a miserable Tamar, and of injustice in a
joyful Tamar. (..* NOR WAS VIOLET, IN ANOTHER PART, INDIFFERENT TO *..)
Gideon's suggestion that she might be blamed for letting Tamar descend into
depression, even perhaps into suicide. She did not want to be so blamed. She
wanted to be the victim, not the killer. That Violet did not believe Tamar's
sufferings to be all that serious was perhaps due to (..* YET ANOTHER PART OF
VIOLET'S MIND WHICH CARED FOR TAMAR *) as her possession, her product, indeed
her daughter.
[[Text: source p.342]]
(* ONE SIDE OF YOU CRAVES *..) for ... comfort, while (..* THE OTHER SIDE
ITCHES *) for [speed].
[[Speech: source]]
(* SOME PART OF MYSELF which was almost A STRANGER to me was very very SORRY that
Tommy was gone.*)
[[Text: source p.354]]
(* HIS MIND PRESENTED THE EXPLANATION TO HIM.*)
[[Text: source]]
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]]
It was as if (* CHRISTINE'S MIND STOPPED SHORT AT *) the stealing itself,
giving no thought to what Cheryl stole for.
[[Text: source]]
In the region of his mind which was the place for Senta and himself he had
at this moment no worries and no fears. But (* AS IF HIS CONSCIOUSNESS DIDN'T
WANT HIM TO BE WITHOUT ANXIETIES, IT ALLOWED Cheryl to creep into it.*)
[[Text: source]]
He had never day-dreamed of himself as successful, ... (* HIS IMAGINATION NEVER
EVEN TOOK HIM AS FAR AS THE CARPET *) in front of the ... managing director's
desk, ...
[[Text: source]]
{mixed metaphor, w IDEAS AS MODELS?}
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.*..)
[[Text: source]]
{METONYMY: upbringing-FOR-effects-of-it}
I did love him. Well, (* AT LEAST PART OF ME DID.*)
[[Text: source]]
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.
[[Text: source]]
(* A PART OF ME WARNED:*) people who live unlisted don't all of a sudden list.
[[Text: source]]
When she made promises like that [i.e., that I would get into college],
her eyes filled to the surface (* AS IF THE PART OF HER THAT WISHED CROSSED THE
PART OF HER THAT LIED *) and gave a certain kind of smiling face with tears,
like a rainbow.
[[Text: source]]
(* HALF OF ME WHISPERED THAT *) I'd drive all the way there.
[[Text: source]]
This allegation baffles me completely until (* I FORCE MY MEMORY BACK, ALONG
THE WINDING LANES *..) of those sudden ups and downs of happiness and despair,
(..* BACK TO THE AFTERNOON *) I am still embarrassed to recall, ...
[[Text: source]]
{METONYMY: THING FOR IDEA}
I sit waiting on my bed. (* A PART OF ME IS GLAD *) I have waited so long,
for I sense now that I cannot fail; ...
[[Text: source]]
Did (*PART OF YOU THINK,*) `Yes, ... I'm flattered ...'?
[[Speech: source]]
(* PART OF YOU WANTS *..) to talk [about the personal problem] but (..* PART OF
YOU DOESN'T.*)
[[Speech: source]]
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]]
{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?}
The work grows; I keep expanding it, conceiving it more and more clearly until
I have the entire composition finished in my head though it may be long. Then
(* MY MIND SEIZES IT *) as a glance of my eye a beautiful picture or a handsome
youth.
[[Text: source p.423]]
(* CONVINCING MYSELF *) that I am setting a good example for my children,
showing them how tireless i can be in the service of family and friends.
[[Text: source]]
{NB: most of passage is in upper case in the file}
Performer said: "My (* INTUITION TOLD ME *) this would a be a good piece to play."
[[Speech: source]]
In times of crisis, it [denial] allows us to function by (* SHIELDING US FROM INTERNAL
PAIN.*)
[[Text: source]]
... she says. "In order to survive, (* I SPLIT INTO A DAY CHILD *...) who
giggled and smiled (...* AND A NIGHT CHILD *) who lay awake in a fetal
position, only to be pried apart by my father. Until I was twenty-four, the day
child had no conscious knowledge of the night child." Only when her former
minister voiced the suspicion that she had been abused did (* THE REALITY OF
THE NIGHT CHILD EMERGE.*)
[[Text: source]]
"I got into trouble, primarily alcohol, some drugs. That was a
very long haul. I had no idea what was wrong with me. I knew, (* BUT I
KEPT IT A SECRET FROM MYSELF *) or (* THE INFORMATION DIDN'T GET TO THE
PLACE WHERE IT SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN. ...*)"
[[Text: source]]