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Only for a moment; but it was enough. It was a sudden revelation, a tinge like a blush which one tried to check and then, as it spread, one yielded to its expansion, and rushed to the farthest verge and there quivered and felt the world come closer, swollen with some astonishing significance, some pressure of rapture, which split its thin skin and gushed and poured with a extraordinary alleviation over the cracks and and sores! Then, for a moment, she had seen an illumination‚ a match burning in a crocus‚ an inner meaning almost expressed. But the close withdrew‚ the hard softened. It was over – the moment.
Så skriver Virginia Woolf om vad mrs Dalloway i boken med samma namn känner i vissa situationer. Läsaren förstår att det handlar om en extraordinär känsloexplosion som Clarissa Dalloway har erfarit, till exempel när hon blev kysst i ungdomen av sin väninna Sally. I dag kallas det som uppstår hos mottagliga människor i olika situationer – vid beröring, när man hör vissa ljud, ser något speciellt eller tuggar på något särskilt – för head orgasm eller headasm på engelska.