work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5960,"",Reading,2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,"To say truth, I was now conscious of a revolution in my mind. I can scarcely assign its true causes. Not tokens of it appeared during my late retreat to Malverton. Subsequent incidents, perhaps, joined with the influence of meditation, had generated new views. On my first visit to the city, I had met with nothing but scenes of folly, depravity and cunning. No wonder the images connected with the city, were disastrous and gloomy; but my second visit produced somewhat different impressions. Maravegli, Estwick, Medlicote and you, were beings who inspired veneration and love. Your residence appeared to beautify and consecrate this spot, and gave birth to an opinion that if cities are the chosen seats of misery and vice, they are likewise the soil of all laudable and strenuous productions of mind.
(Part II, chapter 9, p. 494)",2003-10-22,15829,"•See earlier qualms about the figurative nature of ""revolution."" REVISIT.
•Note also that an opinion is given birth to in the last sentence. I have not given the metaphor its own entry. (Should I include opinions with ideas, images, thoughts, etc.?) REVISIT.",There may be revolutions in the mind,"",2009-09-14 19:44:48 UTC,Mervyn changes his mind about the city
6936,"","Searching ""mind"" in HDIS (Austen)",2011-06-09 20:36:38 UTC,"""This is pretty--very pretty,"" said Fanny, looking around her as they were thus sitting together one day: ""Every time I come into this shrubbery I am more struck with its growth and beauty. Three years ago, this was nothing but a rough hedgerow along the upper side of the field, never thought of as any thing, or capable of becoming any thing; and now it is converted into a walk, and it would be difficult to say whether most valuable as a convenience or an ornament; and perhaps in another three years we may be forgetting--almost forgetting what it was before. How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!"" And following the latter train of thought, she soon afterwards added: ""If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient--at others, so bewildered and so weak--and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond controul!--We are to be sure a miracle every way--but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting, do seem peculiarly past finding out.""
(II.iv, p. 143)",,18635,"","""The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient--at others, so bewildered and so weak--and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond controul!""","",2011-06-09 20:36:38 UTC,"Volume II, Chapter iv"