This article originally appeared on VICE US.
In your memoir, I was struck by your saying that the exhilaration of language, particularly for a young poet, is almost inseparable from its power, but that, at a certain point, the suspect nature of the power undermined the exhilaration you were feeling, and you started to examine issues with respect to women, and the passivity associated with women and Irish poetry.
I was also feeling exhilaration.
Many, perhaps most, people have experienced a sudden rush of emotion on hearing a particular piece of music; a thrill or chill, a sense of excitement or exhilaration, a feeling of being swept away by it.
I found myself miming a slow-motion disco dance to try to catch her eye until, after about 15 minutes, she fell into step behind me – a moment of exhilaration that left me feeling all lit up.
What should the mighty Dallas Mavericks be feeling right now? Exhilaration, or anxiety?
As summit day came nearer, I felt only exhilaration, exhilaration to reach the peak, exhilaration to hike through the night, and exhilaration that maybe I would do it without feeling sick after all.
I'VE spent the last week traveling to two of America's greatest innovation hubs — Silicon Valley and Seattle — and the trip left me feeling a combination of exhilaration and dread.
The style of the win will be intoxicating for Spurs, but when their heads clear, amid the faint memory of delight and exhilaration, perhaps they should also be feeling a little bit of embarrassment.
"Therein lies the very truth which my co-workers and I wanted to proclaim: that all men and women in our culture are capable of feeling what he called the exhilaration of identifying with the tormentors".
