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The innovator not only has the frisson of being revolutionary , but he can indulge the conceit of being intellectually superior since he has examined what others take for granted . More recently we experienced the frisson of media excitement over the revelation that former Senator Bob Kerry may have killed Vietnamese civilians while leading a clandestine nighttime raid deep into Viet Cong territory . So the businesses that have arisen to cater to foreign tourists in search of the frisson of being part of a revolutionary movement with little if any actual physical danger involved have become a larger share of the economy than might have been anticipated by anyone . Perhaps people just enjoy the frisson of potential infinite regress , especially if they hold computational theories of mind - it is scary to think about things that might leave lesser brains than one 's own stuck in a loop . Yet as a rumor , it was unparalleled in the way it spread and the frissons of horror it sent clawing up the spines of all who heard it . They might even be tempted by the frisson of being accused of censoriousness , for it must be a terrible bore to be inexhaustibly understanding toward the banal pranks of the avant garde . Zarawah , my fabulous ship of the desert , chewed the cud for his second or third late afternoon snack as we swayed rhythmically together towards the distant sand dunes.Perched on a precarious nest of baskets and blankets some seven feet above the stony desert floor , I relaxed into these rather odd sensations and luxuriated in the frisson of being at the very edge of the vast expanses of the Sahara . ” Murphy ’ s account of his most spectacular discovery is worth quoting at length , as it captures beautifully the frisson of successful literary archaelogy .