Thought it might be time to post something. I actually liked the Smith article. I had similar experiences he described swimming at a lake outside of Halifax as a kid. We had a cottage, more of a shack really, and I would spend hours by myself feeling like a dolphin swimming under water I actually came up for air occasionallyJ Something Claudia said about how we can look at something through so many different lenses struck me. Smith was obviously using the lens of someone who had similar bodily at some point in his life, and the feelings of euphoria or ecstasy associated with these experiences. Smith was coming from the bodily experiences of movement, but what Claudia said made me think of the possibility of the lenses that bring into play other sensual experiences. Like having an ice cold beer when parched on an incredibly hot day, or a great piece of chocolate when craving something sweet, or being moved by an incredible piece of music at just the right moment. Or experiencing an incredible sunset. I once stood in front of a small Cezanne watercolour of Mount St. Victoire in the Guggenhein in New York, and the way he juxtaposed the primary colours made the trees and objects in the painting start to move after staring at it for a few minutes….an experience that sent shudders through my body in a physical reaction to what was going on in the painting. I’ve had so many experiences which have seemed to bring me outside the experiences of language, and into my body through one sense or another. I feel that this was what Smith was trying to get at, and viewed beyond the just the physical sense of touch it seemed to make more ‘sense’ to me.