The logical thing to do here would be to treat this as if it were nothing but a classroom situation. Slight problem: Gordon stinks at classroom situations. Ask anybody who took his freshman year physics class at Boston University. It just wasn't meant to be.
"The, um, accelerated heart rate, for one, that's pretty common," he says instead. "There's the pupils of the eyes, those tend to get bigger when you're looking at or thinking about the person in question. Sometimes-" He looks down at his hands and his expression goes very rueful. "-sometimes there's localized sweating. And the odd feeling in the stomach, sometimes. Not always."
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Date: 2008-08-18 07:28 pm (UTC)"The, um, accelerated heart rate, for one, that's pretty common," he says instead. "There's the pupils of the eyes, those tend to get bigger when you're looking at or thinking about the person in question. Sometimes-" He looks down at his hands and his expression goes very rueful. "-sometimes there's localized sweating. And the odd feeling in the stomach, sometimes. Not always."