surge

so for the first time you are excited that finally you are hearing the very words you used to only read in books and strange blogs and uttered by mad lonely men on the edges of the night, all being churned out by some professor in front of you, locke hume hobbes descartes wordsworth thoreau marx augustine capitalism socialism evolution naturalism transcendentalism romanticism the concept of the sublime the awe in horror and wilderness and nature, all over the course of two hours.

and then you stop short to wonder whether other people inside the class are actually interested.