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Other portions of the self, on the one hand, are not so limited. [...]
[...] Handing her the two envelopes and the two pieces of Bristol, I had asked her to pick a test object, seal it up, and give it to me the next time we saw her, without telling me what the test object was. [...]
(Lorraine handed me her envelope while Jane was out of the room; thus Jane did not see it before the test. [...]
[...] When she picked it up she said, staring, “It’s almost as if you’ve got to choose between biting into the sandwich, your hand that holds it, or your knee beneath the hand — not because you’re disoriented but because everything’s all one. [...]
[...] “Right now, even, my voice sounds just great to me, and my hands feel real liquidy, almost like water….”
[...] You may, on the other hand, see the vengeful hand of an angry God in such instances, where the deity once again uses nature to bring man to his knees. [...]
(On the other hand, with the copyedited manuscript for James and the concluding chapters of Emir mailed to Prentice-Hall earlier this month, Jane found herself with some unexpected free time. [...]
(Long pause, then with much subdued irony:) In exasperation some of you see nature as good and enduring, filled with an innocence and joy, while on the other hand you envision man as a bastard species, a blight upon the face of the earth, a creature bound to do everything wrong regardless of any strong good intent. [...]
[...] … Any such translation is, nevertheless, a second-hand version of the original — an important point to remember.
[...] The whole experience took place between 2 P.M., the last time I’d looked at the clock, and 3 P.M. Then I realized that my left hand was completely immobile, folded up and locked tight. [...]
Actually, I was only remotely aware of the difficulties of my hand. [...]
Astonished, I thrust my hand out the window, and the motion set ripples out, making fairly deep “cracks” near my fingers and more shallow ones farther away. [...]
[...] Her eyes were now closed, her hands raised to her face, her pace broken by many short pauses and a few long ones. [...]
(With the hand holding the envelope, Jane reached out to make a large vigorous crossing-out gesture, or X-shape, with her full arm. [...]
A sun shape, or yellow in the upper right hand corner. [...]
[...] The exception is the large AAA seal affixed by hand beneath my typed address; this is in black, embossed on foil. [...]
[...] On the other hand, you often work when you do not feel like it, but need other refreshment, simply because of course you have already tired yourself through the ensuing dilemmas.
[...] On the other hand, you do have that freedom with time that others do not possess, and it is one that you overlook.
[...] During these periods she will sit quietly in her chair, her eyes closed, her hands usually unmoving in her lap. When she resumes she merely carries on with the thought at hand as though there had been no interruption.)
[...] Ego must have at hand, however, those experiences that are significant for manipulation within the physical environment.
On the one hand, our work and yours is largely devoted to poking holes into the official one-line consciousness, and on the other you find yourself financially responsible to contribute to its policies.
[...] On the other hand, you face the evidence of today; almost, though not quite, it seems, the worst picture possible, the antithesis of what is desired. [...]
For there, you envision on the one hand the best possible book, content, production, et cetera; and as if to purposefully torment yourself, you also envision the opposing “gross practical product” that could possibly result—a product that would only mock by contrast the ideal that is also so vividly envisioned.
[...] In any case your imagination and your beliefs go hand in hand.
(Pause.) There has been on the one hand a too-great reliance upon the conscious mind — while its characteristics and mechanisms were misunderstood — so that proponents of the “conscious-reasoning-mind-above-all” theories advocate a use of intellect and reasoning powers, while not recognizing their source in the inner self.
On the other hand there are those who stress the great value of the inner self, the emotional being, at the expense of the conscious mind. [...]
[...] On the other hand, do explore the entire field of vision simultaneously. [...] Be aware of its pressure against the chair, for example, and of its temperature, of variations: Your hands may be warm and your feet cold, or your belly hot and your head cold. [...]
[...] So this exercise will allow you to attend — to focus your awareness to the matters at hand as clearly and vividly as possible. [...]
[...] Each time I’d evidently seen myself as a Roman military officer living early in the first century A.D. In the first episode I was aboard a galley in the Mediterranean; in the second, I floated face down in that sea with my hands bound behind me.
(Jane paused at 10:25 and I handed her the 45th sealed envelope. [...] Instead she sat with one hand raised to her eyes.)
[...] The object came into being when Doug, who is 14 years old, was showing me how he writes left-handed. [...]
[...] As stated he was trying to show me how he writes left-handed.