In what context does a feeling arise? What are the neighbouring feelings that give it a place? The background, the alternatives, the echoes? Feelings are never very remote from bodily sensations, as if they are translations of them, or are rooted in them. A disembodied feeling? Well, yes perhaps, but it could only be fleeting, the momentary illusion of there being a body it was anchored in. The feeling qualities of colours and smells are significant, but as modalities of sense and as lodging them in a network of wider associations, a larger version of the body that is the same felt body but spread out in a higher dimensional space, one that maps all that you identify with, all your topoi, your places, palaces? - you have no notion how far this might reach, you have never been to the end of it. There is a high level of ambiguity, no fixed meanings; repetition counts - the feeling is different each time its conditions are repeated; feeling has memory. Feelings always appear against a ground, a larger whole but of the same sort of stuff, feelings within feelings. A feeling does not so much have intention as a rôle, like a costume that you put on and then you are in a rôle with all the attitudes, the mindset, that go with it. This is the way feeling is bound up with noesis, action, your action. Now consider that feelings flow continuously, or rather are continuous seeming, but actually full of discontinuities - the bodily sensations are continuous but the associated rôles are discrete. All of this makes up the way that you seem to precede yourself, to already be there in every place you go - 'I found myself experiencing X' - you arrived and found what? - yourself already there. Like a hanger-on you can't ditch no matter what twists and turns you take.