feelingless

Tevis was born in San Francisco, into what he called a “feelingless, uptight” home.

A threshold is crossed, and the boy becomes a man, which in this case is to say a feelingless drone.

Thanks to the popularity of Pokémon Go — and the cold fact that time itself is just an interminable feelingless Vine — Cain has a new message for the kids.

They want to make you feelingless.

Neither Fintan nor Martina know that their mother, Joan, can hardly bring herself to walk past the National Maternity hospital because of the memories it brings back. They see her as a kind of monster, feelingless, blithely unaware. This beguiling novel is also a clear-eyed, even forensic study of a family crammed with secrets to the point of sickness, reflecting a wider society that bolts down consumer goods in order to purge itself of the past.