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"Feel" by Ryan Allen (Ammu (And an angry feeling rose in her and…
"Feel" by Ryan Allen
Estha
Estha, walking on the riverbank, couldn't feel the wetness of the rain
He had a green-
wavy, thick-watery, lumpy, seaweedy, floaty, bottomless bottomful
feeling.
He could taste the hot, salt breeze on his mouth. He could feel it lift his hair.
He watched the
bumpy landing with his tap-water Eagle flask slung around him and a bottomless-bottomfill feeling
From the soles of Ambassador Estha's beige and pointy shoes an angry feeling rose and stopped around his heart.
Rahel
She could feel Estha's rocking, and the wetness of rain on his skin
She could feel the gray gristle of the felt that cushioned the window glass pressing into her chinskin
She knew nothing then, of how precious a feeling this was
Rahel's "list" was an attempt to order chaos. She revised it constantly, torn forever between love and duty. It was by no means a true gauge of her feelings.
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Ammu
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"So remember what I told you.
People's feelings are precious. And when you disobey me in Public, everybody gets the wrong impression."
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She buried her head in her arms, feeling foolish for having been so sure.
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Margaret Kochamma
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Being with Chacko made Margaret Kochamma feel as though her soul had escaped from the narrow confines of her island country into the vast, extravagant spaces of his.
He made her feel as though the world belonged to them--as though it lay before them like an opened frog on a dissecting table, begging to be examined.
Environment
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Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear--civilization's fear of nature, men's
fear of women, power's fear of powerlessness.
History was wrong-footed, caught off guard. Sloughed off like an old snakeskin. Its marks, its scars, its wounds from old wars and the walking-backwards days all fell away. In its absence it left an aura, a palpable shimmering that was as plain to see as the water in a river or the sun in the sky. As plain to feel as the heat on a hot day, or the tug of a fish on a taut line.
Velutha
Though the rain washed Mammachi's spit off his face, it didn't stop the feeling that somebody had lifted off his head and vomited into his body.
Mammachi continued her tirade, her eyes empty, her face twisted and ugly, her anger propelling her towards Velutha until she was shouting right into his face and he could feel the spray of her spit and smell the stale tea on her breath.
If he saw her, he couldn't feel her.
Other uses
The arrangement suited Mammachi, because in her mind, a fee clarified things.Disjointed sex from love. Needs from Feelings.
Ambassador Estha looked down, and saw that his shoes (from where the angry feelings rose)
"Hello, all," she said. "I feel I've known you for years."
They met in the clinic of Dr. Verghese Verghese (Kottayam's leading Pediatrician and Feeler-up of Mothers).
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"Feeling hot, baby?" the man like a knot asked Rahel kindly in Malayalam.
He would touch it, listening with his
eyes, like an expectant father feeling his unborn baby kick inside its mother's womb.
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