periphescence

"They stood gazing at eachother, as her stomach began to feel funny again...To her, it felt like a lake of warmth flooding up from her abdomen and across her chest. It spread like the 180-proof, fiery flood of a mint-green Finnish liqueur. With the pumping of two efficient glands in her neck, it heated her face. And then the warmth got other ideas and started spreading into places a girl like her wouldn't allow it to go, and she broke off the stare and turned away.."     -Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex