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COGNIZING AS INTERACTING WITH NON-OWN-MENTAL ENTITIES
(The entities need not be real. They can be mental (such as ideas) or non-mental, but if mental then they should not belong to the agent.)

The ability to (* PULL UP THE DRAWBRIDGE ON HIS PAST *) means he becomes occasionally (* distant *) in private moments.
[[Text: source]] {Mixed with metonymy from PAST to past life. the metaphor links the agent to that past life, mixing with metaphorical view of it as a castle.}

(* 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 MIND AS PHYSICAL OBJECT.}

... but when I could read what she had written, (* CREEP AND CRAWL AND SNUGGLE INSIDE HER BRAIN,*..) ... You who've never read the secret words of the familiar, domesticated people you love, you who've never (..* SNUGGLED INTO THEIR BRAINS and LOOKED OUT THROUGH THEIR EYES,*..) how can you understand what I felt? It's as if (..* I HAD OPENED A DOOR *) and saw Nada not as she wanted to seem to us, but Nada as she really was, a stranger, a person Father and I did not know and had no connection with.
[[Text: source p.214]]
{mixed with MIND AS PHYSICAL SPACE and with metonymy BRAIN FOR MIND}

Then he was (* seized by one of those tremblings of the soul *) in which you (* feel yourself TRANSPORTED INTO A HIGHER WORLD.*)
[[Text: source p.56]]

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]]

... gazing into her eyes and (* DRINKING IN HER SOUL.*)
[[Text: source p.77]]
{Mixed with MIND AS PHYSICAL OBJECTS, as the soul is viewed as a physical object.}

Invested in believing he was sincere, Jamie refused to see the pattern. "I started avoiding my friends. I couldn't really (* FACE WHAT WAS HAPPENING TO ME *), ..."
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Rather than (* CONFRONT A WEIGHT GAIN *), we'll simply avoid the scale and any full-length mirrors in the bathroom.
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... (* MY MIND RETURNS TO *) {an event}
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But Cheryl's purpose in stealing was (* BEYOND HER {i.e. Christine}.*) It was as if (* CHRISTINE'S MIND STOPPED SHORT AT *) the stealing itself, giving no thought to what Cheryl stole for.
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{NB: discourse coherence between BEYOND HER and STOP SHORT.}

Of course he was still in mourning for his father. (* THERE WAS A DIRECTION IN WHICH HE CONSTANTLY TURNED, TO BE CONFRONTED BY AN ABSENCE.*)
[[Text: source p.273]]

(* HULVER FELT AS IF HIS WORDS WERE EXPLORING A TUNNEL DOWN WHICH HE HIMSELF HAD NEVER BEEN.*)
[[Text: source p.76]]

The inventive gambling proponents ... can (* TURN THEIR HEADS TO *) what might be legal on reservations with horse racing, ...
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(* Bracken's MIND TOOK HIM BACK TO THE BLIZZARD *) ...
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Dr. Zilbergeld [said,] ` ... Allow yourself to fantasize. Sit at your desk and allow (* YOUR MIND TO WANDER TO A GREAT NIGHT OF SEX IN THE PAST.*) ... '
[[Text: source p.79]]
{NB: mixing w. TIME AS SPACE and MIND AS ANIMATE BEING or LIVING BODY}

At that moment, (* Belinda's THOUGHTS HAD TURNED AGAIN TO *) the blood in the toilet bowl ...
[[Text: source p.31]]

On this sunny winter's afternoon, we had (* CRAWLED BACK IN TIME *) and witnessed what Ronnie Joe Waddell had done.
[[Text: source p.347]] {mixed with TIME AS SPACE, with scenes viewed as objects on the spatial line; also analyzable as IDEAS AS EXTERNAL ENTITIES}

--- and, (* TO MY OWN MIND,*) this conclusion is an inescapable conclusion of considerations like the above ---
[[Text: source p.425]]

We are wandering, however, from the point ... (* I TAKE IT *) we should all agree with the original notion of a bomb ...
[[Text: source p.65]]

(* FOR PARENTS *) of disabled children, every "routine" mile- stone reached is a miracle, ...
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(* TO HIS MOST FERVENT OPPONENTS,*) Walesa would be dangerous either in victory or in defeat. If he loses, they (* fear *), he could destabilize the country by instigating new popular protests.
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{The ``To'' phrase could just indicate that in reality Walesa would be dangerous, but the fear in the next sentence suggests that the danger is in their minds.}

I too am from the Experimental Generation, but I couldn't even pay for my own drink. (* TO ME,*) feminism has backfired against women.
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(* FOR CONSERVATIVES,*) today's military success compounds a paradox.
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(* TAKE PAM.*) For years after her older brother, a onetime high-school football star, was diagnosed with schizophrenia, ...
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(* TAKE TINA *), who knows she's an alcoholic.
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(* TAKE NATASHA *), a TV talk-show producer ...
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(* TAKE BIRTHDAYS.*) One family may trot out party favors, balloons and a big cake with candles, while in another household the day slips by practically unnoticed.
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{NB: most of passage is in upper case in the file}