Feelings

"Feelings, nothing more than feelings."

He never really talked about his feelings, never even came to grips with his feelings. If he were to articulate his feelings, he thought – thinking was something he did well, albeit with a mixture of classical logic and non-classical non-logic – then he would be thought of as a freak. So he kept his feelings inside, analysing them, using the non-standard techniques developed by Robinson (albeit far from their original application area), twisting them into the kind of puzzle that keeps knot theorists awake at night. Even sharing his feelings with friends was impossible: they'd no longer want to be his friend. So he twisted his tangled feelings around the stick of his thought process, increasing the tension in the twine, tightening the knot, feeling that this thing could never be undone, that he could never explain how he felt to anyone, as it was far to complex, far too entangled, far too bizarre ... how could anyone like someone who felt like this, who thought like this? ... he settled down with a thick book on logic.