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The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Sounds of travel produce an intense bodily response in the speaker, described through shudder, dryness, heat and a churning stomach. The passage conveys agitation without supplying a clinical diagnosis or verifying an event.
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