As though letting a waterfall rain on you, let each moment come and go without clinging to anything, thought, feeling, sound or sensation.
There was something for everyone, or at least everyone who doesn't mind popping in earplugs and spending a few hours feeling sound waves actually vibrate through their body and trying to communicate to their friends through hand signals.
If those feelings sounds familiar in our current Trump-addled dystopia, that was not Kelly's intention.
His prose – detailed, exotic, resonant of feelings, sounds and fragrances – soared well above the requirements of the genre; he described alien landscapes with bizarre and inventive energy in language that was ambitious, wordy, sometimes lurid, always bold.
There's a revealing moment when the housekeeper says of the old man that "just because he doesn't say much doesn't mean that he hasn't feelings like the rest of us"; the Irish lilt means that, to an English ear, "feelings" sounds extraordinarily like "failings".
Make sure you include feelings, sounds, etc. Feelings make a story alive.
Music is what our feelings sound like.
The arguments Brooke and Gary have, whether about household routines or about feelings, sound more like fumbling PowerPoint summaries of conversations than like real human speech.
It is what feelings sound like.
In ways we mostly do not notice, hearing is not just sound – it is sound plus feeling, or sound plus physical sensation, thought, history, and choice of what to hear.
