Frisson
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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.
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.
Twenty-two amateurs in a semicircle. A borrowed piano. Ellie in the second row of altos with a score she had marked in three colours because she was the kind of person who marked scores in three colours.
"From letter G," said Marcus. "Altos, you're late. You've been late since 1998."
"We've been considered," said Bridget, who was seventy-one and afraid of nothing.