text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"The grief which overwhelmed the unhappy parent, was of that outrageous and desperate kind which is wholly incompatible with thinking. A few incoherent motions and screams, that rent the soul, were followed by a deep swoon. She sunk upon the floor, pale and lifeless as her babe.
(Part II, chapter 12, p. 524)",2009-09-14 19:44:50 UTC,"""A few incoherent motions and screams, that rent the soul, were followed by a deep swoon.""",2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,Mervyn discovers Clemenza,"",2008-12-03,"","",Reading,15837,5960
"In the opportunity that had been afforded me to view his countenance, I had observed tokens of a kind very different from those which used to be visible. The gloomy and malignant were more conspicuous. Health had forsaken his cheeks, and taken along with it those flexible parts, which formerly enabled him to cover his secret torments and insidious purposes, beneath a veil of benevolence and cheerfulness. Alas! said I, loud enough for him to hear me, here is a monument of ruin. Despair and mischievous passions are too deeply rooted in this heart for me to tear them away.
(Part II, chapter 13, p. 533)",2009-09-14 19:44:50 UTC,"""Mischievous passions"" may be too ""deeply rooted"" in the heart to tear out",2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,Mervyn visits Welbeck in prison,"",,"",•Note the reported thought is spoken aloud. There is an unclear boundary between soliloquy and thought in this novel.,Reading,15838,5960
"Welbeck put his hands to his head and exclaimed: curses on thy lips, infernal messenger! Chant elsewhere thy rueful ditty! Vanish! if thou wouldst not feel in thy heart fangs red with blood less guilty than thine.
Till this moment the uproar in Welbeck's mind appeared to hinder him from distinctly recognizing his visitant. Now it seemed as if the incidents of our last interview suddenly sprung up in his remembrance.
(Part II, chapter 13, p. 534-5)",2009-09-14 19:44:50 UTC,"""Till this moment the uproar in Welbeck's mind appeared to hinder him from distinctly recognizing his visitant""",2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,"Part II, chapter 13. Mervyn visits Welbeck in prison and tells him of Clemenza's fate and the death of her child","",,"","•What to do with the fangs in the heart? I am not sure in what way this threat is meant to be taken. REVISIT. Reminiscent of Cleopatra.There are serpents and hearts elsewhere in this database. It would be worthwhile to investigate this strand.
•Uproar? I don't know how to sort this, unless I create a category of sound under which music and other noise gets put.
•On the next page Welbeck threatens: ""My heart would suffocate thee with its bitterness!"" (535)",Reading,15839,5960
"Nay, said he, withdraw not on my account. If I go to my chamber, it will not be to sleep but to meditate, especially after you assurance that something of moment has occurred in my absence. My thoughts, independently of any cause of sorrow or fear, have received an impulse which solitude and darkness will not stop. It is impossible to know too much for our safety and integrity, or to know it too soon. What has happened.
(Part II, chapter 14, p. 537)",2009-09-14 19:44:51 UTC,Thoughts may receive an impulse and continue in motion in spite of solitude and darkness ,2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,"Part II, chapter 14. Mervyn returns to Stevens. Can't sleep until all is explained.","",,"","•See also Mervyn's thoughts which are in ""perpetual motion"" (484). These sorts of descriptions are closely allied with notions of mental mechanism, but perhaps I need to create a larger category named ""Kinematics and dynamics"" or something like that.
•Compare also with autopilot moments in the novel. Mervyn is often carried along by his thought--mechanically or otherwise.
•REVISIT. Clumsily put.",Reading,15840,5960
"My soul drooped at the prospect, but I said, it cannot be prevented, and this reflection was antidote to grief, but nor that thy ruin is complete, it seems as if some of it were imputable to me, who forsook thee when the succour and counsel of a son were most needed.
(Part II, chapter 14, p. 537)",2009-09-14 19:44:51 UTC,"""My soul drooped at the prospect""",2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,"Part II, chapter 14. Mervyn (in conversation with Stevens) apostrophizes his father","",,"",•The soul like the heart droops in Mervyn. See also (593).,Reading,15841,5960
"My chief occupation, however, related to the scenes into which I was about to enter. My imaginations were, of course, crude and inadequate; and I found an uncommon gratification in comparing realities, as they successively occurred, with the pictures which my wayward fancy had depicted.
(Part II, chapter 17, p. 566)",2009-09-14 19:44:51 UTC,The fancy depicts pictures,2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,Mervyn on his way to Baltimore,"",,"","•Previous paragraphs on the pleasures of the imagination. Racialized omparisons of a monkey, the Congolese, and the Creole-Gaul. See a younger Mervyn doing the same with features of nature (539).",Reading,15843,5960
"On this occasion all my wariness forsook me. I cannot explain why my perplexity and the trouble of my tho'ts were greater upon this than upon similar occasions. However it be, I was incapable of speaking, and fixed my eyes upon the floor. A sort of electrical sympathy pervaded my companion, and terror and anguish were strongly manifested in the glances which she sometimes stole at me. We seemed fully to understand each other with the aid of words.
(Part II, chapter 17, p. 569-70)",2011-04-15 16:24:00 UTC,"""A sort of electrical sympathy pervaded my companion, and terror and anguish were strongly manifested in the glances which she sometimes stole at me.""",2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,"","",,"","Mervyn visits the wife of Amos Watson
•See the previous ""Emotion is communicated to the heart with electrical rapidity"" that characterizes Mervyn and Welbeck's relationship. On page 296. I have already noted that in Godwin's Caleb Williams sympathy is magnetic.",Reading,15844,5960
"I was for some time at a loss to guess at the cause of these appearances. At length is occurred to me, that joy was the source of the sickness that had seized Mrs. Maurice. The abrupt recovery of what had been deemed irretrievable, would naturally produce this effect upon a mind of a certain texture.
(Part II, chapter 18, p. 576)",2009-09-14 19:44:52 UTC,""" The abrupt recovery of what had been deemed irretrievable, would naturally produce this effect upon a mind of a certain texture""",2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,"Part II, chapter 18. Mervyn visits the Maurices","",,"",•The mind's texture! What does this tell us about the mind? Do any other writers conceive the mind in these terms?,Reading,15845,5960
"This intercourse was strangely fascinating. My heart was buoyed up by a kind of intoxication. I now found myself exalted to my genial element, and began to taste the delights of existence. In the intercourse of ingenious and sympathetic minds, I found a pleasure which I had not previously conceived.
(Part II, chapter 20, p. 585)",2009-09-14 19:44:52 UTC,The heart may be buoyed up by a kind of intoxication,2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,Mervyn enjoys talking with Mrs. Watson and Miss Maurice,"",,"","•I have not included descriptions of the sinking heart, so it seems a little strange to include this reference to the heart's buoyancy.
•The heart droops, melts, sinks, floats, overflows, etc. Notice the figuration of liquid.",Reading,15846,5960
"I now set about carrying my plan of life into effect. I began with ardent zeal and unwearied diligence the career of medical study. I bespoke the counsels and instructions of my friend; attended him on his professional visits, and acted, in all practicable cases, as his substitute. I found this application of time more pleasurable than I had imagined. My mind gradually expanded itself, as it were, for the reception of new ideas. My curiosity grew more eager, in proportion as it was supplied with food, and every day added strength to the assurance that I was no insignificant and worthless being; that I was destined to be something in this scene of existence, and might someday lay claim to the gratitude and homage of my fellow-men.
(II,xxi, p. 589)",2011-06-17 17:08:45 UTC,"""My mind gradually expanded itself, as it were, for the reception of new ideas.""",2003-07-21 00:00:00 UTC,"Part II, Chapter 21","",,"","•Mervyn returned from Baltimore. Notice Mervyn's hungry curiosity. I have not included it as a separate entry becuase curiosity is not one of my keywords.
• I'm adding it now.",Reading,15847,5960