How Does It Feel (Slade song) "How Does It Feel". The song featured a brass section, performed by members of Gonzalez. In the band's 1984 biography "Feel the Noize!", Lea recalled: "It was an old song that I'd written and Nod put some great lyrics to it. Tommy Vance said that it was good but that we were in for a hard time. But it didn't matter to me whether it was number one or number 15... to me it was a much better record than we'd made before and that was all I cared about." Despite the song's disappointing charting, "How Does It Feel" is
How It Is the world as mud ("E fango è il mondo") and therefore, a kind of purgatory, as well as Dante's image of souls gulping mud in the Stygian marsh of the "Inferno" (Canto VII, 109–126, in Palma's translation): Dante's Belacqua and his foetal position also are referenced in "How It Is" and the following quotation is an example of the work's unpunctuated, dense, and poetic style: The novel served as inspiration for Miroslaw Balka's 2009 work, "How It Is", in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. How It Is How It Is is a novel by Samuel Beckett first published in French as