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Frisson

free-SOHN

n.A sudden passing shiver of emotion — the body reporting a fact the mind has not yet approved.

French, via research on aesthetic chillsEstablished psychological concept

Studied as aesthetic chills or musical frisson.

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Eight Bars
The rehearsal room was too hot and had been since October, when the caretaker had done something to the heating that he described as sorting it and that had in fact welded the building into a permanent August.
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