"I can tell you one thing about it: exuberance is irrational…it makes one wonder what burden of fear the word irrational betrays: it implies a preference for sensible risk, risk that does not impose itself on the senses as a threat to a comfortable rhythm of the subject in the event. Irrational exuberance is what sex requires, although the scale of the event might be as small as a blurt."

lauren berlant, from “starved”