I picked up a piece, feeling absurdly that it would show me the place as it had been hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of years ago.

Like it or not, Carlos felt absurdly at peace.

Leo felt absurdly like a man chasing a runaway pet.

I felt absurdly as though I had appeared in public in my undergarments.

I felt absurdly that all the dead were delaying me, as if they could wish to speak.

I felt absurdly that we three were on the same side fighting the rest of the world.

Eddie, meanwhile, stretched up even further, feeling absurdly like a small boy telling a secret.

She went to meet him at the aerodrome, feeling absurdly like a girl of seventeen keeping her first date.

For a moment he felt absurdly like flushing.

Feeling absurdly self- conscious, I spread the quilt, meaning to fold it around my shoulders again.