From "A WORD CHILD" by Iris Murdoch =================================== Penguin: Harmondsworth, U.K., 1975 (reprinted 1987) ISBN 0 14 00.8153.4 p.228 mid: But the fact --- have I forgotten that I killed her, have I changed __that__[ital] 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.*) p.233 bott: Such are the remarkable faculties of the human mind, such was my (* mind *) that morning in the park as (* IT EXPANDED AND REJOICED.*) p.234 quarter down: We had come out into the open beside the water. Not at Peter Pan [the statue], (* MY CAREFREE RUNNING STEPS HAD HAD THE AWARENESS *) to avoid that; ... p.244 top: When I telephoned her on Thursday evening I had heard that (* LONELY ECHO FROM THE PRIVATE INWARDNESS *) of her sad existence. p.244 mid: I was always profoundly relieved and glad to come to Crystal, though this never, (* IN THE HARSH CHEMISTRY OF MY SOUL, SET GOING ANY WISH *) to see her oftener, ... p.264 bott: `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---*)' p.266 bott: ...a dialectical change, the end of a nightmare, (* THE BREAKING OF SOMETHING WHICH CAN NOW NATURALLY FRAGMENT AWAY.*) p.267 mid: Gunnar was being objective again. `This much I suppose I learnt from analysis, to (* PULL EMOTION, FEELING, WHAT LIES DEEPER AND MORE AWFULLY CLOSE TO THE LIVE HEART, OUT INTO THE OPEN A BIT MORE;*) to apprehend connections and let (* TERRIBLE THINGS OWN THEIR FEELINGS *) without disguise....' p.267 quarter up: [METONYMY] There is no need for you to run the risk of meeting me on the stairs. Since (* I SHALL BE TIMELESSLY AVAILABLE IN YOUR MIND AS A CURATIVE AGENCY,*) it would be a pity, would it not, if the real me were to intrude. p.297 top: [drug scene] Christopher was playing his tabla and there was a fragrant ineffable sense of togetherness as if (* ALL OUR MINDS WERE LIGHTLY GLUED TOGETHER,*) ... p.329 top: The frost was glittering on the paving stones, marked with footprints. (* SO MANY CONFUSED EMOTIONS WERE DARTING AND FLASHING ABOUT, I FELT AS IF MY HEAD WERE WRAPPED UP IN A SORT OF SPARKLING GAUZY VEIL, POSITIVELY BUNDLED UP WITH INTENSE FEELING.*) I also felt rather sick. p.335 quarter down: Yet it was through [Kitty's] meddling that the thing had come about. [NP] (* I TOSSED MY BODY AND MY THOUGHTS TO AND FRO,*) ... p.339 mid: Then I was with her and there was (* A STRANGE BLANKNESS, AN UTTER CALM OF DELIGHT.*) Suddenly, down into the (* FURTHEST CRANNIES OF BEING *) all was well. p.354 bott: [Tommy] had vanished from my life at last. [NP] I sat perfectly still, not twitching a muscle, for a very long time. (* SOME PART OF MYSELF which was almost A STRANGER to me was very very SORRY that Tommy was gone.*) (* SOME LITTLE NARROW DEEP COMFORT had been taken from me. Was it true that that LITTLE DEEP LOSS *) would prove the (* LAST STRAW WHICH WOULD BREAK THE BARRIER AGAINST DESPERATION, AGAINST TOTAL RECKLESS MADNESS?*)