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[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Fair enough, you may have a point there

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I appreciate you for hearing me out, Magnora. Especially because you run this site and respond to the user-base. I was ridiculed a lot in highschool for trying to make this distinction between feeling and emotion. It wasn't until I had a solid English teacher who taught me that a lot of writers throughout history have had similar sentiments, one of them being James Joyce. As a guy who started to go blind in his later years, he seemed to experience different emotions and sensations than he had before, making him write slightly different as a result. Another good author who talks a bit about this is JRR Tolkien, although I only saw this sentiment show up in his Letters (a compilation book of his letters published by his late son) not in his big books.