Word: joyousness
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...This joyous fellow feeling does come about, it comes in a flash, a feeling of unity not just with flowers and trees and animals (that's easy to achieve) but with other self-sustaining human egos as well...
SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM, by Joan Didion. Twenty essays by a gifted writer who transforms even the most joyous of people and places (hippies, Haight-Ashbury) into her own melancholy image...
...accurate high notes. The audience goes wild and demands an encore. From Santiago, Buenos Aires, Vienna and London come frantic pleas for concerts. Backstage, greeting her well-wishers, Beverly sings the obligatory arioso, I Can't Imagine Being Anything But an Opera Singer, while with contrapuntal verve, the joyous chorus adds the hallelujah-like Bubbles, Bubbles, Wasn't It All Worth the Troubles...
When I arrived at my place of initiation, then, my heart was beating fast and I expected wonderful things to happen to me. I removed my shoes at the entrance of the house, as I was told. When the assistant, with her secret, joyous smile, motioned me upstairs, I followed her wordlessly up and into a small bare room, where I was to wait...
...time went by, but I wasn't impatient. Quietly excited, though. Resting in the wicker basket the assistant had given me were my two oranges, clean handkerchief, and six flowers--all necessary for the ceremony. I began to fear that my flowers might wilt, but then the joyous assistant came softly to me, and whispered that I should follow...