Pressing ourselves against the interior walls and shimmying along the narrow banks of the rushing water, we worked our way into a vaulting palace of ice, where ten-foot-long icicles hung from the ceiling like giant fishhooks.
Nor, on the crush of an early-morning tube train, can we help, in spite of ourselves, from experiencing a frisson of unease whenever we find ourselves pressed up against a young British Asian carrying a bulky rucksack.
Harry Crews and I had won awards at the American Academy and found ourselves pressed against the wall of a large room staring across substantial space at a large collegial group of Northeastern writers who seemed to know their way around the place.
But, as soon as we add that we feel the jerk of the train as it accelerates, or feel ourselves pressed up against its walls, Leibniz might insist that we have moved from kinematics to dynamics.
So we pressed 200 physical copies ourselves before SXSW and got a bunch out to independent record shops across Colorado for Record Store Day.
And, clearly, it makes no sense to go from a White House that consulted no one with Bush and Cheney doubling as the Lone Ranger and Tonto for the past eight years to one that is Who's Who of domestic, and foreign, experts, and that can stand in as a small army if we find ourselves hard pressed for forces in Afghanistan.
As the editors of T were sending this issue to press, we found ourselves thinking about the idea of women's beauty that runs through its pages.
Since we cannot expect Washington and its stable of political animals to do the work, we must press for it ourselves, by sending the message to Capitol Hill: Taking on ever bigger amounts of debt is mathematically unsustainable.
So the claim is not belief in God but "belief in ourselves"? the interviewer, exasperated, pressed, one last time.
At the Four Seasons restaurant, for example, we sit ensconced in a place of arrival, looking back at ourselves looking in, noses pressed to the glass.
