"How in the world," she wonders, "could it be boring and arousing at the same time?" The Sorrows of an American, by Siri Hustvedt (Henry Holt; $25).
"How in the world," she wonders, "could it be boring and arousing at the same time?" By Rivka Galchen By Malcolm Gladwell By Jelani Cobb By David Remnick.
"How in the world," she wonders, "could it be boring and arousing at the same time?" A cultured British couple who pride themselves on unconventionality decamp to an island in the Indian Ocean, intending to continue their careers (his, advertising; hers, a women's-health column) via the Internet.
The discipline that started out centuries ago as "a sex cult," with rapacious vagabond yogis focused on "the path to the ecstatic union" and enlightenment known as Tantra, maintains its ability to calm and arouse at the same time.
In other words, the body is getting aroused and the mind is getting aroused to the same degree," Brotto says.
Cleopatra clearly aroused the same prurient fantasies in her day that she does in ours.
This article aroused in me the same sense of dread and fear that I felt during the Cold War.
Hardly appealing to the gustatory sense, this work nonetheless arouses a somatic response at the same time that it invites rumination on the venerable hierarchy of the senses that puts the distance senses of sight and hearing above the bodily senses of touch, smell, and taste.
The manner in which the gringos treat the American continent (remember that the gringos are Yankees) aroused my growing indignation, but at the same time I studied the theoretical explanation for what they do and found that it was scientific.
