James Nyoraku Schlefer, another Bargemusic regular, closed the concert by playing "Tamuke," an offering to the spirits of the dead, on the shakuhachi, the Japanese flute that can make a sound keening and full and then, the next moment, wispily faint.
The footsteps move away, and the next sound is the faint squeak of the light bulb in the hall being unscrewed.
The press release about Hiscox states: "The firm were swayed by York's unique combination of … " and the next line was too faint to read, but I could easily fill in the gap.
And I can move on to the next guest with a faint smile that would never have grown during my first career.
It's all above my head and frankly creeps me out a little bit, but if it keeps me from fainting the next time my doctor needs to draw blood, I'm all for it.
I fainted the next couple of times I tried that exercise, but eventually I was able to experience anger toward my mother that I had never allowed myself to experience.
And it fully justifies Lady Macbeth's fainting in the next moment.
Although Dr George C. Fell said Kemmler "never suffered a bit of pain", a reporter who also witnessed the execution wrote in the New York Herald the next day that "strong men fainted and fell like logs upon the floor".
More Democratic than Republican, it has several global companies and the memory of many more; an embattled middle class and encroaching poverty; and the faint sense that the Next Big Thing better arrive before even its beloved park fountain, visible from the diner's front window, gets shut off.
Night fell, and the trolls used astronomy to further pinpoint the flag: "The faint star visible next to the flag is Polaris — it has to be since the other star is rotating around it in a perfect circle".
