…knitting his brows, he lapsed into an introspective state, his lips moving as one who repeats mystic words.
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...there was that luxurious after-dinner atmosphere when thought roams gracefully free of the trammels of precision.
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I thought in a transitory way of the oddness of wells still existing, and then resumed the thread of my speculations.
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(THE THOUGHT OF) THE POSSIBILITY OF LOSS
At once, like a lash across the face, came the possibility of losing my own age, of being left helpless in this strange new world.
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I was in an agony of discomfort.
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The bare thought of it was an actual physical sensation.
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A THOUGHT / AN INTERPRETATION
CAN BE READ IN SMB’S FACE
I met the eye of the Psychologist, and read my own interpretation in his face.
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The Journalist, too, would not believe at any price, and joined the Editor in the easy work of heaping ridicule on the whole thing.
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When I saw them standing round me, it came into my head that I was doing as foolish a thing as it was possible for me to do under the circumstances, in trying to revive the sensation of fear.
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THE DEVIL OF FEAR AND ANGER
THE DEVIL OF FEAR AND ANGER
It was a foolish impulse, but the devil begotten of fear and blind anger was ill curbed and still eager to take advantage of my perplexity.
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RESTLESSNESS AND INSECURITY
It was this restlessness, this insecurity, perhaps, that drove me further and further afield in my exploring expeditions.
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…I feared my courage might leak away!
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I felt like a beast in a trap, whose enemy would come upon him soon.
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Then I tried to preserve myself from the horror that was coming upon me by regarding it as a rigorous punishment of human selfishness.
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A horror of this great darkness came on me.
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IS TO BE IN ONE’S ELEMENT
Here I was more in my element…
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I came out of this age of ours, this ripe prime of the human race, when Fear does not paralyse and mystery has lost its terrors.
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FEELINGS / GRATITUDE AND A MUTUAL TENDERNESS
…even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.
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Psychologists had been telling us for years that the human being is largely a machine. Lord Leicester compared human beings to grandfather clocks driven by watch springs. A single traumatic experience in childhood could be the foundation for a lifelong neurosis.
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Human beings are also very largely machines, but we also possess a degree of consciousness, which means, in essence, freedom from habit…
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What the Chronics are – or most of us – are machines with flaws inside that can’t be repaired…
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Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery.
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I can feel that least black boy out there coming up the hall, smelling out for my fear. […] I can hear him snort.
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I could see that there was some thought he was worrying over in his mind like a dog worries at a hole he don’t know what’s down.
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I’m not a chicken, I’m a rabbit. The doctor is a rabbit. Cheswick there is a rabbit. Billy Bibbit is a rabbit. All of us in here are rabbits of varying ages and degrees, hippity-hopping through our Walt Disney world. …we can’t adjust to our rabbithood. We need a good strong wolf like the nurse to teach us our place.
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A sound of cornered-animal fear and hate and surrendered defiance, that if you ever trailed coon or cougar or lynx is like the last sound the treed and shot and falling animal makes as the dogs get him, when he finally doesn’t care any more about anything but himself and his dying.
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I see her sit in the center of this web of wires like a watchful robot, tend her network with mechanical insect skill, know every second which wire runs where and just what current to send up to get the results she wants.
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SELF-ESTEEM AND DOMINATION
…her painted smile twists, stretches to an open snarl, and she blows up bigger and bigger, big as a tractor, so big I can smell the machinery inside…
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SELF-ESTEEM AND DOMINATION
…she goes to puffing up. Her nostrils flare open, and every breath she draws she gets bigger… […] …she’s already big as a truck. … she blows up a size bigger, blowing and puffing, roll down anything in her path!
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IS THE BIG SIZE OF BODY PARTS / FOOT
“…look at the size of that foot of yours; big as a flatcar!” I looked down and saw how my foot was bigger than I’d ever remembered it, like McMurphy’s just saying it had blowed it twice its size.
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IS THE BIG SIZE OF BODY PARTS / HAND
…the hand on that arm the black boy was holding commenced to swell up. […] They didn’t see the hand on the end of that arm pumping bigger and bigger as he clenched and unclenched it. I was the only one saw it.
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SELF-ESTEEM AND DOMINATION
… Then, just as she’s rolling along at her biggest and meanest, McMurphy … stops her dead! She shrinks to about head-high to where that towel covers him, and he’s grinning down on her.
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SELF-ESTEEM AND DOMINATION
The Big Nurse’s eyes swelled out white as he got close. […] This was supposed to be her final victory over him, supposed to establish her rule once and for all. But here he comes and he’s big as a house!
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MIND /AND ITS “CONTENT”: GUESSES AND IMPRESSIONS/
…my mind was already in revolution; my guesses and impressions were slipping and sliding to a new adjustment.
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IS TURNING THEM OVER IN ONE’S MIND
…turning such schemes over in my mind I pursued our way towards the building…
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A queer doubt chilled my complacency.
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MOVES/ INTERMITTENTLY /IN ONE DIRECTION
...our consciousness moves intermittently in one direction ... from the beginning to the end of our lives.
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He lapsed into the silence of reminiscence.
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Furious with himself for having given away a discreditable secret, he vented his rage on Bernard.
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CONSCIOUSNESS OF ONE’S SIGNIFICANCE
THE THOUGHT OF PERSECUTION
CAN BE RATHER TONIC THAN DEPRESSING
Bernard left the room with a swagger, exulting, as he banged the door behind him, in the thought that he stood alone, embattled against the order of things; elated by the intoxicating consciousness of his individual significance and importance. Even the thought of persecution left him undismayed, was rather tonic than depressing.
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Nevertheless, there were things in Bernard which he hated. This boasting, for example. And the outbursts of an abject self-pity with which it alternated.
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IS TO TOUCH A SPRING IN HIS / HER MIND
The words seemed to touch a spring in her mind.
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Pale, wild-eyed, the Director glared about him in an agony of bewildered humiliation.
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IS TO MAKE HIM / HER DO IT
…terror had made forget the pain…
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CAN BE MORE OR LESS ONESELF +
IS A CELL IN THE SOCIAL BODY
“I want to look at the sea in peace,” he said. […] “It makes me feel as though …" he hesitated, searching for words with which to express himself, “as though I were more me, if you see what I mean. […] Not just a cell in the social body.”
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So cordially indeed that Bernard felt a sharp pang of jealousy.
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Success went fizzily to Bernard’s head.
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IS TO HAVE THINGS ON ONE’S NERVES
“I’m sorry,” said Bernard, feeling and looking uncomfortably foolish. “I suppose I’ve got things on my nerves a bit.
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THE UPRUSH OF A FEELING / ONE’S SELF-PITY
…the uprush of his self-pity was like a fountain suddenly released
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INNER POWER / THAT ONE IS NOT USING
IS LIKE WATER / GOES DOWN THE FALLS INSTEAD OF THROUGH THE TURBINES
“Did you ever feel,” he asked, “as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren’t using – you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?”
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Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.
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CAN DISAPPEAR AND LEAVE A HOLE
His heart seemed to have disappeared and left a hole. He was empty.
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Anger suddenly boiled up in him.
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The Savage stood for a moment in frozen silence.
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CAN BOUNCE / OFF THE CARAPACE OF THICK STUPIDITY
“…Yes, babies. Mewling and puking,” he added, exasperated by their bestial stupidity into throwing insults at those he had come to save. The insults bounced off their carapace of thick stupidity…
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PIERCE THROUGH INCOMPREHENSION
The words “Throw it all away” pierced through the enfolding layers of incomprehension...
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CAN BE ABSORBED INTO OTHER ONES
Grief and remorse, compassion and duty–all were forgotten now and, as it were, absorbed into an intense overpowering hatred of these less than human monsters.
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…the Savage lay sleeping in the heather. The sun was already high when he awoke. He lay for a moment, blinking in owlish incomprehension at the light; then suddenly remembered everything.
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ЧЕЛОВЕК (ЕГО СОЗНАНИЕ, ПРОЯВЛЕНИЯ ЕГО ВНУТРЕННЕГО МИРА)
– ЭТО МАТЕМАТИЧЕСКИЙ ОБЪЕКТ
На меня эта женщина действовала так же неприятно, как случайно затесавшийся в уравнение неразложимый иррациональный член (запись 2-я, с. 13).
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ЧЕЛОВЕК (ЕГО СОЗНАНИЕ, ПРОЯВЛЕНИЯ ЕГО ВНУТРЕННЕГО МИРА)
– ЭТО МАТЕМАТИЧЕСКИЙ ОБЪЕКТ
Но в улыбке у ней был все время этот раздражающий икс (запись 6-я, с. 24).
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ЧЕЛОВЕК (ЕГО СОЗНАНИЕ, ПРОЯВЛЕНИЯ ЕГО ВНУТРЕННЕГО МИРА)
– ЭТО МАТЕМАТИЧЕСКИЙ ОБЪЕКТ
И тут вдруг почему-то опять этот нелепый сон [имеется в виду воспоминание о нем. – Ю.Г.] – или какая-то неявная функция от этого сна (запись 7-я, с. 29).
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ЧЕЛОВЕК (ЕГО СОЗНАНИЕ, ПРОЯВЛЕНИЯ ЕГО ВНУТРЕННЕГО МИРА)
– ЭТО МАТЕМАТИЧЕСКИЙ ОБЪЕКТ
И вдруг она рассмеялась. Я просто вот видел глазами этот смех: звонкую, крутую, гибко-упругую, как хлыст, кривую этого смеха (запись 6-я, с. 26).
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ЧЕЛОВЕК (ЕГО СОЗНАНИЕ, ПРОЯВЛЕНИЯ ЕГО ВНУТРЕННЕГО МИРА)
– ЭТО МАТЕМАТИЧЕСКИЙ ОБЪЕКТ
Это было необычайно странное, пьяное: я чувствовал себя над всеми, я был я, отдельное, мир, я перестал быть слагаемым, как всегда, и стал единицей (запись 27-я, с. 108).
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Когда она вошла, еще вовсю во мне гудел логический маховик… (запись 2-я, с. 10).
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Это просто все то же самое ее «опережение мысли» – как бывает (иногда вредное) опережение подачи искры в двигателе (запись 2-я, с. 13).
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В голове у меня крутилось, гудело динамо (запись 10-я, с. 40).
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– ЭТО МЕХАНИЗМ / МЕМБРАНА
I была где-то там, у меня за спиной… […] …я слушал – весь слушал. И вспомнилось… нет: сверкнуло в одну сотую секунды…
Мне пришлось недавно исчислить кривизну уличной мембраны нового типа (теперь эти мембраны, изящно задекорированные, на всех проспектах записывают для Бюро Хранителей уличные разговоры). И помню: вогнутая, розовая трепещущая перепонка – странное существо, состоящее только из одного органа – уха. Я был сейчас такой мембраной. […] Туго натянутая мембрана дрожит и записывает тишину. (Запись 10-я, с. 41.)
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Что со мной? Я потерял руль. Мотор гудит вовсю, аэро дрожит и мчится, но руля нет – и я не знаю, куда мчусь: вниз – и сейчас обземь или вверх – и в солнце, в огонь… (Запись 15-я, с. 60.)
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– ЭТО МЕХАНИЗМ / ГРАММОФОН
Во мне был какой-то граммофон: он отвечал на все вопросы быстро и точно, а я, не переставая, – внутри, о своем.[…] – Так держать, – крикнул я в машину, – или не я, а тот самый граммофон во мне – и граммофон механической, шарнирной рукой сунул командную трубку Второму Строителю. […] …граммофон во мне – шарнирно, точно взял трубку, скомандовал «малый ход»… (Развернутая метафора граммофона – запись 34-я, с. 136-140.)
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– ЭТО МЕХАНИЗМ / ГРАММОФОН
Я чувствовал: бледнею – и вот сейчас все увидят это… Но граммофон во мне проделывал 50 установленных жевательных движений на каждый кусок… (Развернутая метафора граммофона – запись 34-я, с. 136-140.)
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ЧЕЛОВЕК ЛИБО ЕГО ИДЕЯ/ЧУВСТВО/ОЩУЩЕНИЕ
– ЭТО ОБЪЕКТ, ИЗУЧАЕМЫЙ МЕТОДАМИ ЕСТЕСТВЕННЫХ НАУК
Вчерашний день [день, когда Благодетель совершал публичную казнь поэта. – Ю.Г.] был для меня той самой бумагой, через которую химики фильтруют свои растворы: все взвешенные частицы, все лишнее остается на этой бумаге. И утром я спустился вниз начисто отдистиллированный, прозрачный (запись 10-я, с. 39).
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– ЭТО ОБЪЕКТ, ИЗУЧАЕМЫЙ МЕТОДАМИ ЕСТЕСТВЕННЫХ НАУК
Есть идеи глиняные – и есть идеи, навеки изваянные из золота или драгоценного нашего стекла. И чтобы определить материал идеи, нужно только капнуть на него сильнодействующей кислотой. Одну из таких кислот знали и древние: reductio ad finem (запись 20-я, с. 81).
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– ЭТО ОБЪЕКТ, ИЗУЧАЕМЫЙ МЕТОДАМИ ЕСТЕСТВЕННЫХ НАУК
ПОБУЖДАЮЩЕЕ К РЕШИТЕЛЬНОМУ ДЕЙСТВИЮ ВПЕЧАТЛЕНИЕ
– ЭТО ПОСЛЕДНЯЯ КРУПИНКА СОЛИ В РАСТВОРЕ
Все это было как последняя крупинка соли, брошенная в насыщенный раствор: быстро, колючась иглами, поползли кристаллы, отвердели, застыли. И мне было ясно: все решено – и завтра утром я сделаю это [прижигание Х-лучами мозгового центра фантазии. – Ю.Г.]. (Запись 39-я, с. 153.)
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НЕПОНЯТНЫЙ ВНУТРЕННИЙ МИР
– ЭТО ПРЕДМЕТ БЫТА / НЕПРОЗРАЧНЫЙ ПРЕДМЕТ / ЖИЛИЩЕ / КОМНАТА-КЛЕТКА С ОПУЩЕННЫМИ ШТОРАМИ
Она смотрела куда-то вниз; глаза были опущены – как шторы.
Вспомнилось: вечером, около 22, проходишь по проспекту, и среди ярко освещенных, прозрачных клеток – темные, с опущенными шторами, и там, за шторами – Что у ней там, за шторами? Зачем она сегодня позвонила и зачем все это? (Запись 6-я, с. 23-24.)
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НЕПОНЯТНЫЙ ВНУТРЕННИЙ МИР
– ЭТО ПРЕДМЕТ БЫТА / НЕПРОЗРАЧНЫЙ ПРЕДМЕТ / ЖИЛИЩЕ / КВАРТИРА С ТЕМНЫМИ ОКНАМИ
В этот момент я видел только ее глаза. Мне пришла идея: ведь человек устроен так же дико, как эти вот нелепые «квартиры» [речь идет о квартирах прошлого, наблюдаемых персонажами в доме-музее. – Ю.Г.], – человеческие головы непрозрачны, и только крошечные окна внутри: глаза. Она как будто угадала – обернулась. «Ну, вот мои глаза. Ну?» (Это, конечно, молча.)
Передо мною два жутко-темных окна, и внутри такая неведомая, чужая жизнь. (Запись 6-я, с. 24-25.)
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НЕПОНЯТНЫЙ ВНУТРЕННИЙ МИР
– ЭТО ПРЕДМЕТ БЫТА / НЕПРОЗРАЧНЫЙ ПРЕДМЕТ / ЖИЛИЩЕ С ОПУЩЕННЫМИ ШТОРАМИ
Опять опустила глаза в письмо – и что там у ней внутри за опущенными шторами? Что она скажет – что сделает через секунду? (Запись 10-я, с. 41.)
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– ЭТО ЖИЛИЩЕ С РАСПАХНУТЫМИ ОКНАМИ
О схватила меня за руку.
– Гулять, – круглые синие глаза мне широко раскрыты – синие окна внутрь, – и я проникаю внутрь, ни за что не зацепляясь: ничего – внутри, то есть ничего постороннего, ненужного. (Запись 7-я, с. 31.)
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НЕПОНЯТНЫЙ ВНУТРЕННИЙ МИР
– ЭТО ПРЕДМЕТ БЫТА / НЕПРОЗРАЧНЫЙ ПРЕДМЕТ / ЧЕМОДАНЧИК
R мотнул головой, почесал в затылке: затылок у него – это какой-то четырехугольный, привязанный сзади чемоданчик (вспомнилась старинная картина – «в карете»). […] Я смотрел на его крепко запертый чемоданчик и думал: что он сейчас там перебирает – у себя в чемоданчике? (Запись 8-я, с. 35.)
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НЕПОНЯТНЫЙ ВНУТРЕННИЙ МИР
– ЭТО ПРЕДМЕТ БЫТА / НЕПРОЗРАЧНЫЙ ПРЕДМЕТ / ЖИЛИЩЕ / ДРЕВНИЙ ДОМ
…я заперся в себя, как в древнем непрозрачном доме – я завалил дверь камнями, я завесил окна… (Запись 34-я, с. 140.)
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СОЗНАНИЕ (И МОЗГ КАК ЕГО МЕТОНИМИЧЕСКОЕ ОБОЗНАЧЕНИЕ)
– ЭТО ПРЕДМЕТ БЫТА / КНИГА
Что ж, я хоть сейчас готов развернуть перед ним страницы своего мозга: это такое спокойное, отрадное чувство. (Запись 12-я, с. 51).
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– ЭТО ПРЕДМЕТ БЫТА / СПАСАТЕЛЬНЫЙ КРУГ
Я еще крепче вцепился в тончайшую руку: мне жутко было потерять спасательный круг. (Запись 16-я, с. 66).
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ЧЕЛОВЕК ИЛИ ПРОЯВЛЕНИЕ ЕГО ВНУТРЕННЕГО МИРА / МЫСЛЬ
– ЭТО ПРИРОДНОЕ ЯВЛЕНИЕ / ЧИСТЫЙ ВОЗДУХ
…я все время дышал чистейшим горным воздухом мысли… (запись 5-я, с. 21)
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ЧЕЛОВЕК ИЛИ ПРОЯВЛЕНИЕ ЕГО ВНУТРЕННЕГО МИРА
– ЭТО ПРИРОДНОЕ ЯВЛЕНИЕ / ВИХРЬ
…я … почувствовал себя захваченным в дикий вихрь древней жизни (запись 6-я, с. 25)
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ЧЕЛОВЕК ИЛИ ПРОЯВЛЕНИЕ ЕГО ВНУТРЕННЕГО МИРА
– ЭТО ПРИРОДНОЕ ЯВЛЕНИЕ / ГРОЗА И БУРЯ
…что-то очищающее, как гроза и буря, – было во всем торжестве (запись 9-я, с. 39)
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ЧЕЛОВЕК ИЛИ ПРОЯВЛЕНИЕ ЕГО ВНУТРЕННЕГО МИРА
– ЭТО ПРИРОДНОЕ ЯВЛЕНИЕ / ТУМАН
…в голове – легкий, зыбкий туман (запись 18-я, с. 73).
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УМСТВЕННАЯ РАБОТА ЧЕЛОВЕКА
– ЭТО БЕРЕМЕННОСТЬ, ПОЛУЧЕНИЕ ЕЕ РЕЗУЛЬТАТА – РОДЫ
Я пишу это и чувствую: у меня горят щеки. Вероятно, это похоже на то, что испытывает женщина, когда впервые услышит в себе пульс нового, еще крошечного, слепого человечка. Это я и одновременно не я. И долгие месяцы надо будет питать его своим соком, своей кровью, а потом – с болью оторвать его от себя и положить к ногам Единого Государства. (Запись 1-я, с. 9.)
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И я вместе с ним мысленно озираю сверху: намеченные тонким голубым пунктиром концентрические круги трибун – как бы круги паутины, осыпанные микроскопическими солнцами (сияние блях); и в центре ее – сейчас сядет белый, мудрый Паук – в белых одеждах Благодетель, мудро связавший нас по рукам и ногам благодетельными тенетами счастья. (запись 25-я, с. 97).
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Дальнейшее я могу описать только приблизительно, только путем более или менее близких аналогий.
Раньше мне это как-то никогда не приходило в голову – но ведь это именно так: мы, на земле, все время ходим над клокочущим, багровым морем огня, скрытого там – в чреве земли. Но никогда не думаем об этом. И вот вдруг бы тонкая скорлупа у нас под ногами стала стеклянной, вдруг бы мы увидели…
Я стал стеклянным. Я увидел – в себе, внутри.
Было два меня. Один я – прежний, Д-503, нумер Д-503, а другой… Раньше он только чуть высовывал свои лохматые лапы из скорлупы, а теперь вылезал весь, скорлупа трещала, вот сейчас разлетится в куски и… и что тогда? (Запись 10-я, с. 44-45.)
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– ЭТО РАСТЕНИЕ / БЕЛЕНА, ЛАНДЫШ
Есть запах ландыша – и есть мерзкий запах белены: и то и другое запах. Были шпионы в древнем государстве – и есть шпионы у нас… да, шпионы. Я не боюсь слов. Но ведь ясно же: там шпион – это белена, тут шпион – ландыш. Да, ландыш, да! (запись 7-я, с. 31).
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– ЭТО МАТЕМАТИЧЕСКИЙ ОБЪЕКТ
Этот иррациональный корень [корень квадратный из минус единицы, строго говоря, не иррациональное, а мнимое число. – Ю.Г.] врос в меня, как что-то чужое, инородное, страшное, он пожирал меня – его нельзя было осмыслить, обезвредить, потому что он был вне ratio (запись 8-я, с. 32-33).
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жалкая клеточная психология (запись 4-я, с. 19).
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Мы идем – одно миллионноголовое тело, и в каждом из нас – та смиренная радость, какою, вероятно, живут молекулы, атомы, фагоциты (запись 22-я, с. 89).
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– ЭТО МИКРОБЫ В ОРГАНИЗМЕ
Я, быть может, уже не фагоцит, деловито и спокойно пожирающий микробов (с голубым виском и веснушчатых): я, быть может, микроб, и, может быть, их уже тысяча среди нас, еще прикидывающихся, как и я, фагоцитами… (Запись 22-я, с. 90.)
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НЕКОТОРОЕ СОСТОЯНИЕ ДУШИ (ЛИБО САМА ДУША)
– Плохо ваше дело! По-видимому, у вас образовалась душа.
Душа? Это странное, древнее, давно забытое слово. Мы говорили иногда «душа в душу», «равнодушно», «душегуб», но душа —
– Это… очень опасно, – пролепетал я.
– Неизлечимо, – отрезали ножницы.
– Но… собственно, в чем же суть? Я как-то не… не представляю.
– Видите… как бы это вам… Ведь вы математик?
– Да.
– Так вот – плоскость, поверхность, ну вот это зеркало. И на поверхности мы с вами, вот – видите, и щурим глаза от солнца, и эта синяя электрическая искра в трубке, и вон – мелькнула тень аэро. Только на поверхности, только секундно. Но представьте – от какого-то огня эта непроницаемая поверхность вдруг размягчилась, и уж ничто не скользит по ней – все проникает внутрь, туда, в этот зеркальный мир, куда мы с любопытством заглядываем детьми – дети вовсе не так глупы, уверяю вас. Плоскость стала объемом, телом, миром, и это внутри зеркала – внутри вас – солнце, и вихрь от винта аэро, и ваши дрожащие губы, и еще чьи-то. И понимаете: холодное зеркало отражает, отбрасывает, а это – впитывает, и от всего след – навеки. Однажды еле заметная морщинка у кого-то на лице – и она уже навсегда в вас; однажды вы услышали: в тишине упала капля – и вы слышите сейчас…
(Запись 16-я, с. 64-65.)
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НЕКОТОРОЕ СОСТОЯНИЕ ДУШИ (ЛИБО САМА ДУША)
«надо всем сойти с ума, необходимо всем сойти с ума» (запись 27-я, с. 109)
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НЕКОТОРОЕ СОСТОЯНИЕ ДУШИ (ЛИБО САМА ДУША)
Да, эпилепсия – душевная болезнь – боль. Медленная, сладкая боль – укус – и чтобы еще глубже, еще больнее. И вот, медленно – солнце. Не наше, не это голубовато-хрустальное и равномерное сквозь стеклянные кирпичи – нет: дикое, несущееся, опаляющее солнце – долой все с себя – все в мелкие клочья. (Запись 4-я, с. 18).
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НЕКОТОРОЕ СОСТОЯНИЕ ДУШИ / ОЩУЩЕНИЕ СЕБЯ
Я чувствую себя. Но ведь чувствуют себя, сознают свою индивидуальность – только засоренный глаз, нарывающий палец, больной зуб: здоровый глаз, палец, зуб – их будто и нет. Разве не ясно, что личное сознание – это только болезнь? (Запись 22-я, с. 90).
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Никакого бреда, никаких нелепых метафор, никаких чувств: только факты. Потому что я здоров, я совершенно, абсолютно здоров. Я улыбаюсь – я не могу не улыбаться: из головы вытащили какую-то занозу, в голове легко, пусто. Точнее: не пусто, но нет ничего постороннего, мешающего улыбаться (улыбка – есть нормальное состояние нормального человека). (Запись 40-я, с. 157.)
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IS THE BIG SIZE OF BODY PARTS / ARMS
“Sure,” I said, “they can do tattoos. But the arms, huh? The arms? They couldn’t do those. His arms were big!”
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SELF-ESTEEM AND DOMINATION
“My Papa was a full Chief and his name was Tee Ah Millatoona. That means The-Pine-That-Stands-Tallest-on-the-Mountain, and we didn’t live on a mountain. He was real big when I was a kid. My mother got twice his size.”
“You must of had a real moose of an old lady. How big was she?”
“Oh – big, big.”
“I mean how many feet and inches?”
“Feet and inches? A guy at the carnival looked her over and says five feet nine and weight a hundred and thirty pounds, but that was because he’d just saw her. She got bigger all the time.[…]
“Just one day took to growin’, huh? Well, that’s a new one on me: I never heard of an Indian woman doing something like that.”
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THE VAGUENESS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
IS LIKE COMING UP AFTER A DIVE
And when the fog was finally swept from my head it seemed like I’d just come up after a long, deep dive, breaking the surface after being under water a hundred years. It was the last treatment they gave me.
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THE RANGE OF THOUGHT / OF CONSCIOUSNESS
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? [...] Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller.”
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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.
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IS TO BE A HUMAN SOUND-TRACK
…there was no imbecility, absolutely none that she was not capable of swallowing if the Party handed it out to her. “The human sound-track” he nicknamed her in his own mind.
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In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. […] By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.
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He let what he judged to be ten minutes go by, tormented all the while by the fear that some accident – a sudden draught blowing across his desk, for instance—would betray him.
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A wave of admiration, almost of worship, flowed out from Winston…
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It was as though some huge force were pressing down upon you – something that penetrated inside your skull, battering against your brain, frightening you out of your beliefs, persuading you, almost, to deny the evidence of your senses.
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FEELS LIKE A FIRE IN ONE’S BELLY
What was even worse than having to focus his mind on a series of niggling jobs was the need to conceal his agitation from the telescreen. He felt as though a fire were burning in his belly.
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AN UNBEARABLE SENSITIVITY
IS A SORT OF TRANSPARENCY
Then for three dreadful days she did not appear at all. His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbearable sensitivity, a sort of transparency, which made every movement, every sound, every contact, every word that he had to speak or listen to, an agony.
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CAN BE PURE OR MIXED UP / WITH OTHER EMOTIONS
No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred.
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A MIND THINKING OVER THE SAME THINGS
IS LIKE A BALL FALLING INTO THE SAME SLOTS
His mind sagged round and round on the same trick, like a ball falling again and again into the same series of slots. He had only six thoughts. The pain in his belly; a piece of bread; the blood and the screaming; O'Brien; Julia; the razor blade.
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IS ONLY A CELL OF A SOCIAL ORGANISM
“You are thinking,” he said, “that my face is old and tired. You are thinking that I talk of power, and yet I am not even able to prevent the decay of my own body. Can you not understand, Winston, that the individual is only a cell? The weariness of the cell is the vigour of the organism. Do you die when you cut your fingernails?”
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FLARES UP IN SMB AND FADES
A violent emotion, not fear exactly but a sort of undifferentiated excitement, flared up in him, then faded again.
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TO BE ABLE TO CHANGE A PERSON
IS TO GET INSIDE HIM / HER
“They can’t get inside you,” she had said. But they could get inside you.
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REMINISCENCES OF IRRETRIEVABLE THINGS
FEEL LIKE SOMETHING WAS KILLED IN YOUR BREAST / BURNT OUT
There were things, your own acts, from which you could never recover. Something was killed in your breast: burnt out, cauterized out.
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Anyway Burt says if the experimint werks Ill be able to understand all those things the studints are talking about and I said do you think Ill be smart like them and he laffed and said those kids arent so smart youll pass them as if their standing still.
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ONE DOES NOT NOTICE SLOW CHANGES IN ONE’S MIND
LIKE THE MOVEMENT OF THE HOUR HAND ON A CLOCK
Charlie you dont know it yet but your getting smarter all the time. You wont notise it for a while like you dont notise how the hour hand on a clock moves. Thats the way it is with the changes in you.
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ASTONISHMENT AND IRRITATION AT THE SAME TIME
LOOK AS IF ONE IS GOING TO BITE ONE’S LIP OFF
I dont no what that meens but Prof Nemur looked like he was going to bite his lip off.
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THE CONSCIOUS AND THE SUBCONSCIOUS
He says… I have two minds. Theres the SUBCONSCIOUS and the CONSCIOUS (thats how you spell it) and one dont tell the other what its doing. They dont even talk to each other.
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TO ENTER A PERIOD OF LITTLE OR NO GROWTH OR DECLINE IN ONE’S DEVELOPMENT
Miss Kinnian said that the TV working, just before I fell asleep and during the night, helped out. She said I reached a plateau. That’s like the flat top of a hill.
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I feel sick. Not like for a doctor, but inside my chest it feels empty, like getting punched and a heartburn at the same time.
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IS A WISH TO HIDE ONESELF
Everyone was laughing at me and all of a sudden I felt naked. I wanted to hide myself so they wouldn’t see. […] I’m ashamed.
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IS A WALL AROUND THE MIND +
TO OVERCOME MENTAL RETARDATION
IS TO WALK THROUGH A HOLE IN THE WALL
Like this morning just after I woke up, I was laying in bed with my eyes open. It was like a big hole opened up in the walls of my mind and I can just walk through.
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DIFFERENT TRAITS OF THE MIND
THE DEVELOPMENT OF ONE OF THEM
OUTSTRIPS THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANOTHER
Your intellectual growth is going to outstrip your emotional growth.
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IS LIKE SCALES / WEIGHING SMB’S PRESENT INTELLECT
IS LIKE THE NUMBERS ON A MEASURING CUP / SHOWING SMB’S INTELLECTUAL POTENTIAL
Nemur said (1) it [an I. Q. – Ю.Г.] was something that measured how intelligent you were – like a scale in the drugstore weighs pounds. But Dr. Strauss had a big argument with him and said an I. Q. didn’t weigh intelligence at all. He said (2) an I. Q. showed how much intelligence you could get, like the numbers on the outside of a measuring cup. You still had to fill the cup up with stuff.
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IS LIKE THE NUMBERS ON A MEASURING CUP / WHICH HAS TO BE FILLED UP
Mine is about a hundred now, and it’s going to be over a hundred and fifty soon, but they’ll still have to fill me up with the stuff.
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I free-associated the way Dr. Strauss told me to do when I remember my dreams. Think about the dream and just (1) let my mind wander until (2) other thoughts come up in my mind. I keep on doing that until my mind (3) goes blank. Dr. Strauss says that it means (4) I’ve reached a point (5) where my subconscious is trying to block my conscious from remembering. It’s a wall between the present and the past. Sometimes the wall stays up and sometimes it breaks down and I can remember what’s behind it.
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I don’t recall ever being so angry before. …suddenly everything exploded.
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IS TO STICK / IN THE MIND
“He forgot already,” said Frank. “It don’t stick.”
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THE VAGUENESS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Give him time and he’ll remember. As soon as the fuzziness passes away he’ll remember.
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THE VAGUENESS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
As he starts to turn the pages, he feels like crying, but he doesn’t know why. What is there to feel sad about? The fuzzy cloud comes and goes...
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It’s exciting to hear them talking about poetry and science and philosophy-about Shakespeare and Milton; Newton and Einstein and Freud; about Plato and Hegel and Kant, and all the other names that echo like great church bells in my mind.
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IS HUNGER / CANNOT BE SATISFIED
I spend most of my free time at the library now, reading and soaking up what I can from books. I’m not concentrating on anything in particular, just reading a lot of fiction now - Dostoevski, Flaubert, Dickens, Hemingway, Faulkner - everything I can get my hands on feeding a hunger that can’t be satisfied.
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FEELS LIKE A SQUEEZING PRESSURE INSIDE
His body begins to shake. They’re arguing, and the voices back and forth make a squeezing pressure inside him and a sense of panic.
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IS A FLAW IN ONE’S PERSONALITY
The sudden memory shows him that his hatred is really directed at a depraved governess who had terrified him with frightening stories and left a flaw in his personality.
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You’ll keep going up and up, and see more and more. And each step will reveal worlds you never even knew existed.
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I’m like a man who’s been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up.
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IDEAS / FREE ASSOCIATIONS
Free association is still difficult, because it it’s hard not to control (1) the direction of your thoughts… just to (2) leave your mind open and let anything flow into it… ideas bubbling to the surface like a bubble bath… a woman bathing… a girl…
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AN ANSWER TO ONE’S QUESTION
CAN BE FOUND INSIDE ONESELF
You’ve got to find the answer inside you, feel the right thing to do.
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Something inside is burning me up, and all I know is it makes me think of you.
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TO ENTER A PERIOD OF LITTLE OR NO GROWTH OR DECLINE IN ONE’S DEVELOPMENT
ARE STREAMS / AS IF THEY FLOW FROM A SINGLE SOURCE
My most absorbing interests at the present time are etymologies of ancient languages, the newer works on the calculus of variations, and Hindu history. […] I’ve moved up to another plateau, and now the streams of the various disciplines seem to be closer to each other as if they flow from a single source.
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ARE (PARTLY) UNDER WATER / THEY HAVE SMTH BEYOND THE SURFACE RIPPLES
I find no pleasure in discussing ideas any more (1) on such an elementary level. People resent being shown that they don’t approach the complexities of the problem, they don’t know what exists (2) beyond the surface ripples.
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SHOWING A LESSER INTELLECTUAL LEVEL
I began to see that by my astonishing growth I had made them shrink and emphasized their inadequacies.
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CAN SWEEP OVER SMB LIKE THE SEA
“Feel it [music. – Ю.Г.]. Let it sweep over you like the sea without trying to understand.”
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POSES AN OBSTACLE / DRIVES A WEDGE BETWEEN PEOPLE
This intelligence has driven a wedge between me and all the people I knew and loved, driven me out of the bakery.
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You’re a new swimmer forced off a diving raft and terrified of losing the solid wood under your feet.
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I’m like an animal who’s been locked out of his nice, safe cage.
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IS NOT A SEA, BUT A POOL OF WATER / REFLECTING THE PAST +
But perhaps I had been released. Maybe the fear and nausea was no longer a sea to drown in. but only a pool of water reflecting the past alongside the now. Was I free?
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IS AN OBSTACLE / A BARRIER +
He reminds me that language is sometimes a barrier instead of a pathway.
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Ironic to find myself on the other side of the intellectual fence.
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IS A CURRENT / CARRIES A PERSON INTO THE OPEN SEA +
The ice had broken between us and the gap was widening as the current of my mind carried me swiftly into the open sea.
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ARE SHADOWS OUT OF THE PAST / DRAG ONE DOWN
Shadows out of the past clutch at my legs and drag me down. I open my mouth to scream, but I am voiceless.
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ARE THE UNEVEN SURFACE OF THE SEA / RIPPLES; WAVES
Each day I learn more and more about myself, and the memories that began as ripples now wash over me in high-breaking waves...
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ARE MIXED IN WITH ‘GOOD-LOOKING’ ONES
Sure he’s egotistic, so what? […] I’ve seen enough of men like him to know that mixed in with that pompousness and self-assertion is a goddamned good measure of uncertainty and fear.
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…my sister knew the storm warnings, and she would always be out of range whenever (2) my mother’s temper flared - but it always caught me unawares. I would come to her for comforting, and (3) her anger would break over me.
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IS TO REDISCOVER ONE’S PAST
Solitude gives me a chance to read and think, and now that the memories are coming through again - to rediscover my past, to find out who and what I really am.
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I was excited at the thought of seeing him. Memories were warm ones. Matt had been willing to take me as I was.
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He stared at me as I sipped the cool water, and I could see him struggling with half-forgotten memories.
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OUR FORMER STATES OF MIND
Somehow, getting drunk had momentarily broken down the conscious barriers that kept the old Charlie Gordon hidden deep in my mind. As I suspected all along, he was not really gone. Nothing in our minds is ever really gone. The operation had covered him over with a veneer of education and culture, but emotionally he was there-watching and waiting.
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TO ACQUIRE KNOWLEDGE, WITH LOW INTELLIGENCE,
IS TO PEER FROM A DARK ROOM / THROUGH THE KEYHOLE
I have often reread my early progress reports and seen the illiteracy, the childish naiveté, the mind of low intelligence peering from a dark room, through the keyhole, at the dazzling light outside.
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(1) OUR FORMER STATES OF MIND
IS THE BARRIER / BETWEEN LOVERS / CREATED BY ONE’S INTELLIGENCE
(3) AN INNER IRRATIONAL PROHIBITION
IS A WIRING / THERE CAN BE SHORT CIRCUITS
But I’ve discovered that (1) not only did Charlie exist in the past, he exists now. In me and around me. [...] I thought (2) my intelligence created the barrier - my pompous, foolish pride, the feeling we had nothing in common because I had gone beyond you. [...] But that’s not it. It’s Charlie, the little boy who’s afraid of women because of things his mother did to him. Don’t you see? All these months while I’ve been growing up intellectually, I’ve still had (3) the emotional wiring of the childlike Charlie. And every time I came close to you, or thought about making love to you, there was a short circuit.
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A GENIUS’S PERCEPTION: / EACH SENSATION
IS HEIGHTENED AND ILLUMINATED
About my perception: everything is sharp and clear, each sensation heightened and illuminated so that reds and yellows and blues glow. […] It’s as if all the things I’ve learned have fused into a crystal universe spinning before me so that I can see all the facets of it reflected in gorgeous bursts of light...
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(1) TO GAIN THE GREATEST ABILITY TO WORK INTELLECTUALLY
IS TO BE ON THE EDGE + TO LIVE AT A PEAK
(1) I’m on the edge of it. I sense it. They all think I’m killing myself at this pace, but what they don’t understand is that I’m living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed. (2) Every part of me is attuned to the work. (3) I soak it up into my pores during the day, and at night-in the moments before I pass off into sleep - (4) ideas explode into my head like fireworks. There is no greater joy than the burst of solution to a problem.
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Incredible that anything could happen to take away this (1) bubbling energy, (2) the zest that fills everything I do. It’s (3) as if all the knowledge (4) I’ve soaked in during the past months has coalesced and (3-the end of the metaphor) lifted me to a peak of light and understanding. работу. Днем (3) я впитываю, а вечерами – в моменты, прежде чем провалиться в сон, – (4) идеи фейерверком взрываются в голове. Нет в мире большего наслаждения.
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WHEN THE MIND DOES NOT CONTROL ITSELF / E.G. AS A RESULT OF SENILITY, IT
Then, after a while, she paused thoughtfully as if remembering something. I had the feeling her mind was going to wander. “No!” I shouted, startling her back to reality…
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(1) AN INTELLECTUAL REGRESSION
(2) THE FORMER STATE OF MIND (CHARLIE)
THE NEW, HIGHLY INTELLECTUAL STATE OF MIND
(1) Downhill. Thoughts of suicide to stop it all now while I am still in control and aware of the world around me. But then I think of (2) Charlie waiting at the window. His life is not mine to throw away. I’ve just borrowed it for a while, and now I’m being asked to return it. Все быстрее (1) вниз под уклон.
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I tell myself there’ll be time enough to sleep later, when it’s dark.
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I lay down on the couch immediately, and he… waited for me to begin the ritual of pouring out all the accumulated poisons of the mind.
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IS A BARBER / SHAVING SMB’S EGO
“…You ought to have this couch designed like a barber’s chair. …when the fifty minutes are up, you could tilt the chair forward again and hand him [a customer. – Ю.Г.] a mirror so he can see what he looks like on the outside after you’ve shaved his ego.”
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IS A BARBER / TRIMMING SMB’S ANXIETY OR SUPER-EGO
“Then your patient could come in at each session and say, ‘A little off the top of my anxiety, please,’ or ‘Don’t trim the super-ego too close, if you don’t mind’…"
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THE NARRATOR FEELS AS IF HE WERE
Speeding, the atoms of my body hurtling away from each other. I grow lighter, less dense, and larger… larger... exploding outward into the sun. I am an expanding universe swimming upward in a silent sea.
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(1) TO BE PASSIVE / DURING AN EXPERIENCE
IS TO LEAVE ONESELF OPEN / TO WHATEVER THIS EXPERIENCE MEANS
(2) TO CONTINUE THE MYSTERIOUS ACTION DESCRIBED [let’s mark it (?)]
IS TO PIERCE THE UPPER CURTAIN OF THE MIND
I wait, and (1) leave myself open, passive, to whatever this experience means. Charlie doesn’t want (2) me to pierce the upper curtain of the mind. Charlie doesn’t want to know what lies beyond. Does he fear seeing God? Or seeing nothing?
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But then it hit me like a fist against the side of my head that I didn’t remember what I had to do.
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IS A BLACKBOARD OF THE MIND +
It was as if I had been looking at the whole thing clearly on the blackboard of my mind, but when I turned to read it, part of it had been erased and the rest didn’t make sense. At first, I refused to believe it. I went through the cards in a panic… […] And I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t remember what I had to say. All missing.
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TO TRY TO STOP AN INTELLECTUAL REGRESSION
TO STOP AN INTELLECTUAL REGRESSION
IS TO FREEZE ONESELF / AT A LEVEL
The only bad thing about having Alice here with me is that now I feel I should fight this thing. I want to stop time, freeze myself at this level and never let go of her.
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TO REGRESS INTELLECTUALLY
“Just leave me alone. I’m not myself. I’m falling apart, and I don’t want you here.”
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CAN KEEP ONE’S INTELLIGENCE +
AN INTELLECTUAL REGRESSION
IS GOING DOWN / ON AN ESCALATOR
…it (1) hit me that if I kept on reading and learning new things, even while I was forgetting the old ones, I would be able (2) to keep some of my intelligence. (3) I was on a down escalator now. If I stood still I’d go all the way to the bottom, but if I started to run up maybe I could at least stay in the same place. The important thing was to keep moving upward no matter what happened.
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(2) A MIND WITH NO PREVIOUS IMPRESSION (OF READING)
Miss Caroline apparently thought I was lying. “Let’s not let our imaginations run away with us, dear,” she said. “Now you tell your father not to teach you any more. It’s best to begin reading with a fresh mind.
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Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.
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A PERSON NOT KNOWING SMTH SIGNIFICANT
IS LIKE A CATERPILLAR IN A COCOON
Jem was staring at his half-eaten cake. “It’s like bein’ a caterpillar in a cocoon, that’s what it is,” he said. “Like somethin’ asleep wrapped up in a warm place. I always thought Maycomb folks were the best folks in the world, least that’s what they seemed like.”
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IS AN ABILITY TO REFRACT SMB’S LIGHT +
PEOPLE UNABLE TO BE СOMPASSIONATE
ARE TORCHES / BLAZING AWAY / UNTIL THEY WHIFF OUT
…how many people did you know that refracted your own light to you? People were more often – he searched for a simile, found one in his work – torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people’s faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?
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A COMPLEX MIND / THAT CANNOT BE COMPREHENDED AT ONCE
IS AN ONION / MANY LAYERS
“I’m a regular onion! I keep him [the psychiatrist. – Ю.Г.] busy peeling away the layers”
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He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.
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IS TO TAKE THE MIND ALONG TO THE DRY-CLEANER’S
If only they could have taken her mind along to the dry-cleaner’s and emptied the pockets and steamed and cleansed it and re-blocked it and brought it back in the morning.
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