Lyric poetry is a way of compressing experience into a heightened moment, but what happens when the experience is one of wanting not to be contained?
All variants of the approach have this much in common: they compress the experiencing of change into momentary (or near-momentary) phases of consciousness.
We hypothesize that depolarized muscle fibres take up not only sodium through the omega pore but also osmotic water, to cause fibre swelling that may compress nerves, experienced by the patients as pain and drop foot (transient compartment-like syndrome).
To Keats, who compressed the experience of a lifetime into a career of five years, it came in his early twenties.
Educators and big-ticket donors have praised the schools for saving students money and time — most schools compress the academic experience into four years.
Once the cord is compressed, the dog experiences symptoms ranging from mild back/neck pain to leg paralysis, loss of sensation, and urinary and fecal incontinence.
The Palimpsests compress a gigantic musical experience into less than 20 minutes, and amount to one of the 21st century's most compelling orchestral pieces so far.
It begins with a drum roll of insistent end-rhymes to summon and compress a vast, unspoken experience, the stony arc that stretches from Petropavloff to "Stinie", "the canyons of Ukraine" to Whitechapel's "sharp and hungry streets".
Theo's Strandbeests, whose long-range purpose is to restore Holland's dunes, attempt to compress centuries of Dutch experience; ideally, he would remake the landscape and record it all in one career.
