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He [Uncle William] (* CHECKED HIS MEANDERING WITS SHARPLY *) and took
refuge in a suitable comment. ... Uncle William's (* THOUGHTS WERE
RACING TONIGHT, however, LEADING HIM IN A FANTASTIC DANCE FROM ONE
SUBJECT TO ANOTHER[.]*)
[[Text: p.96]]
{NB: discourse-extension}
there's (* SOMETHING TUGGING AWAY AT THE BACK OF MY MIND that *) ...
[[Speech: source]]
{mixed with MIND AS PHYSICAL SPACE}
At night, with your ear jammed to the radio [listening to cricket game],
(* DARK FORCES [standing for cricketers] PROWL THE PERIMETERS OF YOUR
MIND,*..) the [cricket] catches that they take the very proof that (..*
EVIL reigns. *..) But in the daylight they are just men, running hard.
[NP] I like to think it's a sign of my maturity that I have now factored
in, as they say, real as opposed to (..* PHANTOM *) cricket.
[[Text: source]]
{mixed with MIND AS PHYSICAL SPACE}
{NB: discourse-extension: link between DARK FORCES, EVIL and PHANTOM}
"the Focusing attitude of being separate from, but in (* CARING
RELATIONSHIP TO"*) one's own emotions ... This (* CARING RELATIONSHIP TO *)
one's own emotions is nicely summed up by Cornell as follows: "Focusing
is like (* BEING A FRIEND TO your own inner experience. The qualities of
true friendship include acknowledging, allowing, patience, curiosity,
respect, warmth, welcome, empathy, compassion, and love *) ... We create
an inner atmosphere of no pressure, just being with what's there. (* WE ASK
GENTLE QUESTIONS AS A WAY OF INVITING THE FEELING TO TELL US MORE ... A
WELCOMING PRESENCE GIVES [EACH FEELING] THE SPACE TO BE AND BREATHE,
EVOLVE AND TRANSFORM" ...*)
[[Text: source]]
{mixed with IDEAS AS INTERNAL UTTERANCES, EMOTIONAL-MIND AS PHYSICAL SPACE}
(* ... A TERRIBLE RAGE BEGAN TO SEIZE HOLD OF ME.*)
[[Text: source p.184]]
(* 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]]
(* IT WAS THEN THAT THE IDEA SLITHERED LIKE A SNAKE INTO MY MIND,
SHOWING ITSELF OPENLY FOR THE FIRST TIME*): if anyone was going to marry
Vanessa Forde, why shouldn't it be me?
[[Text: source p.35]]
(* Beneath the crashing and roaring of the Swede's analysis (* A TINY NOTION CREPT
INTO THE INSPECTOR'S HEAD. *)
[[Text: source p.157]]
(* THE INSPECTOR'S THOUGHTS JUMPED AND LEAPT ABOUT. *) It seemed to him a long
time before he was able ( * TO PIN ONE OF THEM DOWN *) .
[[Text: source p.48]]
(* THE CEASELESS PLODDING TO AND FRO OF THEIR INQUIRIES *)
[[Text: source p.96]]
(* ALL HIS PRECONCEPTIONS STOOD UP IN HIS MIND LIKE SOLDIERS ROUSED FROM BRIEF
SLUMBER ON THE BATTLEFIELD, IN AN INSTANT ALERT, PROBING, RESTLESS. *)
[[Text: source p.109]]
(* WITH ANXIETY FLICKING AND GNAWING AT HIM AT EVERY OTHER INSTANT *) he got dressed.
[[Text: source p.115]]
(* A WILD IDEA BEGAN TO GROW, LIKE THE RAIN-RESTORED PLANTS, IN THE INSPECTOR'S
BRAIN. *)
[[Text: source p.254]]
(* THE THOUGHTS SWAM IN THE INSPECTOR'S HEAD... *)
[[Text: source p.254]]
It's only ten years since the Comedy Store opened, but already there is a (*
NOTE OF WISTFULNESS CREEPING IN FOR THE GOOD OLD DAYS *).
[[Speech: source; <jab 61>]
Inspector Ghote (* SEIZED HIS RUNAWAY TEMPER AND TETHERED IT SHARPLY BACK *) .
[[Text: source p.61]]
(* THERE WAS SOMETHING ELSE TEASING AWAY AT THE BACK OF HIS MIND,*) something else
which he had to deal with
[[Text: source p.177]]
Two images (* JOSTLE IN THE MIND.*)
[[Speech: source]]
{mixed metaphor, w. COGNIZING AS SEEING}
She paused and thought about what she'd just said, about (* THE MESSAGE
LURKING BENEATH THE WORDS.*)
[[Text: source p.240]]
(* Dark blue suit, the pale blue rug---HER MIND STARTED SPLITTING OFF IN SILLY
DIRECTIONS *..)---color combinations, the detective's blue eyes set in a ruddy
face, his red hair standing out against all the blue in the room. He looked as
if he should be sitting in an Irish pub. (..* SHE REINED IN HER THOUGHTS, tried
to focus.*)
[[Text: source p.188]]
She'd (* forgotten *..) about drinking a cup of tea; (..* ANOTHER
THOUGHT HAD MOVED IN. She remembered *) Nicole handing her a business card.
[[Text: source p.186]]
(* HER THOUGHTS FRANTICALLY REACHED FOR SOME INNOCENT ANALOGY.*)
[[Text: source p.166]]
(* Her EMOTIONS WOULDN'T BE BLINKING WARNING LIGHTS AT HER; THEY'D BE SOMEWHERE
ELSE, ON THE NEXT STREET, WAITING FOR HER TO REGAIN HER SIGHT.*)
[[Text: source p.128]]
But (* she couldn't look at the whole image---just jigsaw pieces of it. She saw
their mouths, hungry and afraid,*) but then (* HER THOUGHTS PANICKED AND RAN
AWAY.*)
[[Text: source p.128]]
[The telephone] becomes a lifeline. People with a stomach full of sleeping
pills and (* DOUBTS TIPTOEING IN *) reach for it before they die.
[[Text: source p.111]]
{NESTED within an internal monologue}
(* ONE BRIEF THOUGHT SNUCK THROUGH SARA'S SADNESS AND FEAR AND STUNG
HER *) as she hung up the phone. She (* wondered *) if Allison would be
sleeping on Sara's side of the bed that night.
[[Text: source p.86]]
At nine-thirty, ... Sara wondered if she had imagined
everything. The past twenty-four hours ...[dots in orig] maybe (* SHE'D BEEN
KIDNAPPED BY A VERY LONG HALLUCINATION.*)
[[Text: source p.84]]
`Just (* COMMON SENSE, WHICH SEEMS TO BE ELUDING *) you. ...'
[[Text: source p.68]]
(* THINGS SEEMED TO BRING IT [a memory] TO LIFE *) ...
[[Text: source p.62]]
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]]
(* FROM THE LIGHT-FILLED RECESSES OF HIS SOUL, WHERE THE CHERISHED THINGS OF
THE HEART LIE STILL AND WAITING, THERE CAME A MEMORY OF THE Stone.*)
[[Text: source p.288]]
But when a mole loses such fear, (* THE FREEDOM HE FINDS MAY SERVE ONLY TO MAKE
HIM PREY TO THE DARKER, MORE PERILOUS FEARS THAT LURK BEYOND ALL MOLES' BODIES
AND INHABIT THEIR MINDS.*)
[[Text: source p.200]]
She made an effort (* TO GET RID OF THIS [NOTION] *), but it (* YIELDED *) only a very
little, and remained (* LURKING *) nearby.
[[Text:
source p.41-42]]
(* THOUGHTS AT PEACE: COULD THOUGHTS EVER BE AT PEACE AGAIN?*)
[[Text: source p.584]]
He walked to and fro across the little room, and it was as if (* THE DARK
BIRD-THOUGHTS WHICH HAD BEEN TEARING ROUND AND ROUND LIKE SWIFTS HAD BEGUN TO
SETTLE QUIETLY ON THE FURNITURE AND REGARD HIM WITH THEIR BRIGHT EYES.*)
[[Text: source p.581]]
Jean allowed all sorts of (* ORDINARY HAPPY THOUGHTS,*..) which she had
carefully and dutifully inhibited, (..* TO COME OUT OF THEIR SECLUSION AND
THRONG GAILY IN HER HEAD.*)
[[Text: source p.349]]
(* SHADOWS OF DOUBT, FEAR AND NEGATIVITY CRAWL THROUGH THE NOOKS AND CRANNIES
OF OUR CONSCIOUSNESS.*) With thoughts of self-defeat, (* LOW SELF-ESTEEM DROPS
ITS UGLY HEAD HOLDING ONE BACK FROM *) the potential that lies only inches
away.
... (* alcohol can open the dark gates of the unconscious and through this
orifice there flooded upon Lily ... A PHANTOM HOST OF MEMORIES OF HER CATHOLIC
MOTHER,*) ...
[[Text: source p.203]]
She entertained for a second only (* THE TRADITIONAL THOUGHT, WHICH LIVED
BETWEEN THEM LIKE A FOLK IDEA, THAT *) ...
[[Text: source p.107]]
(..* INTRUDED this silent staring threat. For it did seem to stare at
him, it did seem almost a living thing, which ENTERED HIS CONSCIOUSNESS when
least welcome and stood there, arms folded, exercising its menace.*)
[[Text: source p.156]]
(* THE THOUGHT CAME UNBIDDEN AND MOST UNWELCOME, she was all right without me,
... *)
[[Text: source]]
{mixed metaphor, w. IDEAS AS INTERNAL UTTERANCES}
Philip, momentarily, had a strange (* FEELING THAT CAME QUITE UNBIDDEN.*)
... (* THIS UNWELCOME REFLECTION FLED *) as fast as it had come [because ...].
[[Text: source]]
{discourse coherence}
... the niggling (* CONCERN WHICH NOW WORMED BACK INTO HIS MIND:*) how could he
broach the subject of getting her to change the sheets?
[[Text: source]]
{NB: parallel mixing of with IDEAS AS INTERNAL UTTERANCES?}
... Ellis and Harper catalogue common irrational (* THOUGHTS THAT CREEP INTO OUR
MINDS *) and create disasters.
[[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]]
`But what were the effects? Were there many converts?'
[NP] `(* WE PLANTED A SEED; AN IDEA. WHERE IT FELL ON FERTILE SOIL, IT WILL HAVE
GROWN.*) ...'
[[Text: source]]
But I believe I could welcome the thought of such approaching danger, could I
but (* CONQUER MY DOUBT.*) This is my (* MOST PRESSING FEAR *)---that doubt
about the first origin of my dream.
[[Text: source]]
For a moment I was tempted to laugh with her [Joanna], and dismiss the
thing as a fantasy. But a couple of incidents with Martha (* REARED UP SO
STRONGLY IN MY MEMORY.*)
[[Text: source]]
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]]
my (* IDEAS HAVE NO PREVISION *) of the whole of [my plan]
[[Text: source]]
(Recall that according to the Platonic viewpoint, mathematical ideas have an
[external] existence of their own, and (* INHABIT AN IDEAL PLATONIC WORLD,*)
...
[[Text: source p.428]]
With Jupiter in Sagittarius for the next year, don't let anything harm you.
(* SHOULD A BAD THOUGHT EVEN DARE TO ARISE,*) ignore it. If you've been buried
inside a black hole, climb out into the light.
[[Text: source]]
The limited concessions he already has pried out of Israel and the Arabs (*
SUSTAIN HOPE *) that he can put the peace process on track.
[[Text: source]]
... in what an Arab diplomat called "nearly a (* DEATH BLOW *...)" to
American (...* PLANS *) for a post-war gulf security arrangement ...
[[Text: source]]
Of course with so much of (* THE PENT-UP DEMAND FOR REFORM THWARTED *) this
year, 1992 could be the year when a real outsider storms up the barricades.
[[Text: source]]
The British-educated king says he is trying to explain each
side to the other --- "fighting," as he puts it, "(* TO KEEP HOPE ALIVE.*)"
[[Text: source]]
The day the air war began and Saddam lost control of the
skies, he thought with relief, "We've got them."
The (* CONVICTION SPRANG *) from Schwarzkopf's (* certainty *) that Saddam
could no longer escape, not from his love for rival services.
[[Text: source]]
Many PARENTS (* WRESTLE WITH GUILT *) when they leave a young child in
someone else's care.
[[Text: source]]
{NB: most of passage is in upper case in the file}
The limited edition 1990 Happy Holidays Barbie doll. A gift that will
make (* THIS HOLIDAY SEASON LIVE FOREVER IN YOUR CHILD'S MEMORY.*)
[[Text: source]]
{NB: most of passage is in upper case in the file}
The (* ideals *) propounded in the film are (* THE ENEMY OF SELFISHNESS *)
and an antidote to cynicism.
[[Text: source]]
{NB: most of passage is in upper case in the file}
a body moves in empty space by its own momentum as when
(* OUR THOUGHTS WANDER AT THEIR OWN SWEET WILL *)
[[Text: source]]
{``long-span activities'' are described as ``yoking'', ``encouraging'' and ``steering'' ``short-span activities''.}
[[Text: source]]
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance
[[Text: source]]
So she (* ENTOMBS ALL NEGATIVE THOUGHTS *) and deludes herself into believing
her existence is everything she wants it to be.
[[Text: source]]
In many cases, (* self-destructive patterns *...) engendered by denial can
actually prove tougher to face than (...* THE PROBLEMS THAT SPAWNED THEM.*)
[[Text: source]]
... Their life has deteriorated to such an extent that they're forced to
examine why or they feel secure enough to (* EXORCISE THE GHOSTS.*)
[[Text: source]]
Once the problem has been acknowledged, keeping a log of any related thoughts
or behavior can be an effective way to ensure that (* DENIAL DOESN'T CREEP BACK
IN *). Snapping one's wrist with a large rubber band when undesirable (*
NOTIONS COME TO MIND *) can help (* RECHANNEL THINKING.*)
[[Text: source]]