It wasn't his heart that exploded from feeling too much, it was mine This is an edited extract from Mexican Hooker #1: And My Other Roles Since The Revolution, by Carmen Aguirre, published by Granta on 14 April at £12.99.
My heart, hungry for that feeling of transcendence and acceptance again, zoned in on this connection immediately.
Masha's unrequited and impossible love for Konstantin, the only character onstage who feels more self-loathing than she does, guarantees her unhappiness and allows her to hold on to the notion of love without having to jeopardize a heart that is incapable of feeling it.
I was in my late 20s, I had two beautiful young daughters, a wonderful husband, and still I carried a worry in my heart that never lifted ― the feeling that I was dying.
"This hit home: You know the peril, that feeling in your heart when something is about to go wrong," said Marq Claxton, a detective in the 90th Precinct in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, who worked for five years in undercover narcotics operations.
… It makes that feeling in your heart go to ease.
That feeling is the heart of your memoir.
I know that you have had that feeling within your heart that there must be something more.
You will feel relaxed and confident throughout the meeting, but when you know you will be up soon, you'll have that feeling where your heart and stomach are quivering.
In each case, these efforts to share our music widely have been received with tremendous openness and affection, an outpouring of feelings from the heart that is as profound as any I have experienced conducting the great orchestras of the world across many cities and countries.
