In that fidelity to the details of misery, one feels relish.
It's hard to see what his poem about George Stephenson's rejected inventions ("the all-purpose, dog-mounted Frenchman botherer" etc) has to do with the "mouth-feel" – relish of words – that Jupitus claims to love in poetry.
Looking back through my columns in the months after that day, I am struck by how many were an attempt to sort through the "new normal," to suss out whether the fierce determination we all felt — to relish our lives and back off a little on our obsession with work — was fleeting or forever.
What's ambiguous, though, is how Ms. Miller feels about this; there are many moments when we feel a gruesome relish for the rendering of life as a spectator show.
Sports enthusiasts relish feel good stories like Chicago's Jackie Robinson West team winning the World Series, soccer goalie Tim Howard becoming an international superstar, tennis legend Serena Williams overcoming injuries and taking home her 18th singles grand slam title and Serge Ibaka using his fame and fortune to help children in The Republic of the Congo, his homeland, to name a few.
He is a spokesman for a contingent of Muslims in Luton who feel that Islamist extremists' relish for riling the E.D.L. — and vice versa — makes their lives in Luton significantly more difficult.
We may wince at hearing Mr. Sweet described one more time as tiny and rodentlike or feel uneasy when we relish the description of "the hair on his beautifully pear-shaped head disappearing in a calculated way, as if it was being harvested for a purpose unbeknownst to human imagination".
And I am thankful that I love life, maintain my enthusiasm, remain not too cynical, feel optimistic again and relish new challenges and opportunities throughout the coming year.
Perhaps it makes you feel alive; you might relish the camaraderie of being "stressed out" or equate it with accomplishment or progress.
It feels warped to relish such fragility, but the anxieties and polluted imagination of Avigdor Zahner-Isenberg are enthralling, if worrying.
You relish a challenge, feel driven to accomplish important work and are motivated by opportunities to make a difference.
