Jammed together at lunch. Not a drinker, nevertheless I experience a distinct alteration of consciousness in the presence of others-socially, but even in the classroom or seminar-a heightening, livening, intensifying sensation-a kind of euphoria. {Would the drinkers attain the same heights, without drinking? But they never make the experiment.} The process is deceptive: one feels oneself fulfilled, with these shreds and bits of other people, but at the same time one is being drained.
( Joyce Carol Oates )
[ The Journal of Joyce Carol ]
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