I told a literature grad student that if we gandered at each other maybe one of us would end up getting goosed, the kind of nerdy wordplay I sensed he'd like.
His verbs get goosed, too, adverbially: remarkably, dramatically.
Despite his struggles, Andy (who gets goose bumps watching "Rambo") always stands up to his adversaries: the coach, his foster father, his father and anyone else who's out for him.
In this model, Zimbardo told me that before he went to Iraq, Chip Frederick was an all-American patriot, "a regular church-going kind of guy who raises the American flag in front of his home each day, gets goose bumps and tears up when he listens to our National Anthem, believes in American values of democracy and freedom, and joined the army to defend those values".
It's the old compromise all over again: you get either blur or, if you goose up the ISO, graininess.
Cleverly, it even gooses up the novel at times.
"Still makes your hairs go up and get goose bumps.
Just as the house lights were going down and the curtain was going up, I got goose bumps all over". That was the catalyst for a career in the performing arts that would take him from Texas to Broadway and, eventually, to Las Vegas.
"The emotions I went through that night… now when I think about it my eyes still well up and I get goose pimples.
"Even today, I still get goose bumps thinking about it," Neumann says, holding up his lanky forearm to show that the hairs are standing straight up.
