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On flinching – Autotranslucence

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It’s the feeling that makes you want to stay under the covers. You feel an overwhelming urge to dive into something engrossing; to consume, not to be satiated, but so you don’t have to …

autotranslucence Essays May 8, 2018 August 8, 2019 It’s the feeling that makes you want to stay under the covers. You feel an overwhelming urge to dive into something engrossing; to consume, not to be satiated, but so you don’t have to dwell in the alternative. I feel it as a bodily sensation – a painful twisting in my chest, a slight tingling all over like there would be an itch to scratch if any of it would just coalesce into something stronger. This is impulsivity – the feeling of impulse – from the inside. Once, on a melancholy but restless day, I got dressed,

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