And I think it is this sensation which forms the foundation of my new novel Sophie Someone – it's about disbelief and shock and finding alternative ways to express the impossible.
When a mosquito lands on your arm and it tickles, this sensation is not the straightforward feeling of its legs pushing on your skin.
Similarly, when someone approaches fire and has the sensation of heat, pain or pleasure, he may be persuaded that the heat he feels is in the fire just as he perceives it, since this sensation is known to him clearly.
Red is not, therefore, what might be called the intentional object of an act of sensing, or if it is, it is so only derivatively; it is primarily a quality of the sentient being, who experiences itself as literally turning red when it has this sensation (Treatise I.xi.8).
It's exactly this sensation that lends such heft to his writing: the countless, gentle sentences that pop out of his stories, sparking flashes of internal recognition – I do that!
It was just this sensation that I didn't know how to connect".
Rich people enjoy this sensation, but it is not transferrable to starving Ethiopians, and even if it were, I suspect they'd rather have a couple of crates of Cheetos.The actual resources that went into making up the bag are transferrable, but the poor of the world are not primarily in need of finer grades of leather.
It's difficult to describe this sensation in positive terms.
Christine O'Donnell was also a winner last night, but she'd better enjoy this sensation while it lasts.
Chicago filmmaker Daniel Ryan's video for "Final Meta"—off Joseph Fraioli's new record System on Venetian Snares' Timesig label materializes this sensation, illustrating it with a micro-detailed, plastic model suburb built into a microchip-strewn motherboard.
