Emotional Topographies - Part 2

Looking now at the emotionality of MG Harris's Invisible City

Invisible City - Page 1

• Troubled - too many thoughts
• Alone and with dark thoughts

Invisible City - Page 2

• Foreshadowing through being unaware
  
• Joyful past time interrupted
  
• Slow realisation of reveal
• Mounting tension

Invisible City - Page 3

• False emotion of others and avoidance
• Dread and thoughts of the worst kind
• Momentary denial
• Tactile dislocation from emotion
• Emotional dislocation from tactile - horror and anger

Invisible City - Page 4

• Body takes over where the mind can't comprehend
• Avoid restraint of physical contact and unleash aggression
• Sickness and horror
• Submit to physical contact and thoughts of reversal
• Tears
• Kernel of denial, something to clutch at

Invisible City - Page 5

• Searching for the silver lining, the logical truth
• Sadness in the face of reality
• True horror - the body shock

Invisible City - Page 6

• Emotional shut down
• Mechanical reactions
• Playing over the scenes
• Placing blame and unable to absorb anything
• Taking responsibility

Invisible City - Page 7

• Looking for the chance of optimism
  
• How he should be reacting and how he is reacting

The remainder of the chapter enters into blog posts that cover a reanalysis of what must have happened in the plane crash, but we've got all we need from those first seven pages. Another opening jammed with emotionality.