When I saw the pilot, last summer, my heart sped up.
Henric stops, his heart speeds up, he tries to orient himself.
His latest troubles surfaced when doctors strapped a monitor on him for 34 hours two weeks ago and detected four minor episodes when the heart speeded up abnormally.
Lying on the trolley with general anaesthetic going in at the wrist, how my chest tightened and my heart sped up so much it blocked my head with a high-pitched buzz.
I've watched the first five episodes of Season 2, and, while I don't want to spoil the new installments, I will say that they made my heart speed up, that there's a subplot about Russian Jews, and that Annet Mahendru — she plays Nina, an F.B.I. double agent who works at the Russian Embassy — may be the most beautiful woman on earth.
"It does," he continues, "but … I think it's emotional language, because the only reason why I remember to write it down is because it makes my heart speed up when it comes to me, or it makes me feel like someone hit me in the head, which is how I feel when I read something that totally knocks me on my ass, or see a film that's amazing.
Pupils dilate, the sweat glands kick into action, the blood vessels constrict and the heart speeds up.
My head began to pound, my heart sped up, my breathing became fast and shallow, almost like I was suffocating.
My heart sped up, tears streamed down my face, and I had to open and close my laptop four times before finally believing it was "my" Paul.
