At the moment when Gil, along with the viewer, realizes (as David writes) that he's not at a costume party but actually back in the twenties, in the company of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, the effect is one of giddy astonishment and also of terrible pathos.
His super special mostessness, astonishment of men and angels, lesser human beings, too; Blotus the incredible, the terrible, unstoppable!
The principal human feelings, according to Bharata, are delight, laughter, sorrow, anger, fear, disgust, heroism, and astonishment, all of which may be recast in contemplative form as the various rasas: erotic, comic, pathetic, furious, terrible, odious, marvellous, and quietistic.
The principal human feelings, according to Bharata, are delight, laughter, sorrow, anger, energy, fear, disgust, heroism, and astonishment, all of which may be recast in contemplative form as the various rasas: erotic, comic, pathetic, furious, heroic, terrible, odious, marvelous, and quietistic.
Milosevic feigned astonishment: "Me?
Astonishment dried her tears.
The boy registered astonishment.
He turned around in astonishment.
She grew in moist astonishment.
To her astonishment, he volunteered.
