Corpsey
bandz ahoy
Its also a vague word, a substitute for being more specific.
Did I mean that it was beautiful because it made me feel all gooey?
It surprised me, this sudden shift from the "immediate" to the retrospective, and the use of a sensory metaphor to get at something emotional. You can see he's obsessed with the senses, with perception and with consciousness, but what's really striking is how he intertwines that with emotion - he describes a moonlit landscape with a sort of scientific aesthetic precision, then compares hearing the sounds very clearly and quietly to a concert, but then it becomes about the SPECIFIC concerts that Swann took the narrator's family to, in a single sentence.
Did I mean that it was beautiful because it made me feel all gooey?
It surprised me, this sudden shift from the "immediate" to the retrospective, and the use of a sensory metaphor to get at something emotional. You can see he's obsessed with the senses, with perception and with consciousness, but what's really striking is how he intertwines that with emotion - he describes a moonlit landscape with a sort of scientific aesthetic precision, then compares hearing the sounds very clearly and quietly to a concert, but then it becomes about the SPECIFIC concerts that Swann took the narrator's family to, in a single sentence.