This active engagement with the music "opened for the listener a vista of emotional and psychological tension and an extremity of feeling that possessed relevance because it seemed reminiscent of one's own 'truly lived and felt experience' or one's search for intensity in a deeply personal sense".
This sparkling show, which runs through Sunday at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University, brims with a joy in pranks and japes and silly jokes that suggests the devilish feeling that possesses people on the first bright, balmy day after a long winter.
By stating that "all sensations and vibrations are infinitely divisible," Hartley is elaborating on a point made by George Berkeley, in his Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision ([1709 ] 1948, that a being born "blind" to bodily feeling and possessing only sight would have no concept of space and would be unable to perceive a geometrically ordered world.
It is even possible that, if that feeling had not possessed me, I should have run up sooner to her room and might have prevented her drinking the prussic acid.
Fredson's lyrics astound with a sensuality and sparseness that conjure not only memory but the feeling of being possessed by remembering.
In that era, it was a short step from feeling that one was possessed by God, as often happened at revivals, to feeling that one was appointed by God for a special mission.
During the trip I remember feeling as if I possessed some secret.
But objects don't have to be pre-owned to give you the feeling that they're possessed.
Furthermore, it imparts a feeling of "warmth" not possessed by competing materials such as metals, and it is relatively easily worked.
The one thing these three books have in common is that they were written before the celebrity-industrial complex was fully formed, when a journalist could still push past an artist's P.R. phalanx and come back with a story that possessed real feeling and offbeat detail.
