...ignorant alike of her name and life, was idly speculating on its purpose, seemed to him to cause " a sensation not altogether physical, yet almost so,...the letter were not of red cloth, but red-hot iron." " The sympathy or magnetism among human beings is more subtle and universal than we think ; it exists,...

...reader may smile, but must not doubt my word, — it seemed to me, then, that I experienced a aensation not altogether physical, yet almost so, as of burning...of red ~ cloth, but red-hot iron. I shuddered, and involunta. 'N lily let it fall upon the floor. *!it In the absorbing contemplation of the scarlet lottery...

...This rag of scarlet cloth, — for time, and wear, and a sacrilegious moth, had reduced it to little p(Ȫ } q+ 7̛ < g ~ s ƌ ة 9 ? ύ K ]...{ vK9H 0 p 0?( ^ -+ $? %- Z ` j ; P mN?5 ` Ѝ ) " ding)' paper, around which it had been twisted. This I now opened, and had the satisfaction to find,...

...while yet he, ignorant alike of her name and life, was idly speculating on its purpose, seemed to cause "a sensation not altogether physical, yet almost so,...the letter were not of red cloth, but red-hot iron." "The sympathy or magnetism among human beings is more subtle and universal than we think; it exists,...

...customhouse, Hawthorne then goes on to relate the somewhat mystical transfer of identity that occurs: While thus perplexed,— and cogitating, among other...shuddered, and involuntarily let it fall upon the floor. (43) In this moment, Hawthorne communicates the effect his entire novel is to have on his readers....

...respond to this call can be dangerous. The narrator places the letter on his own breast, and is scorched: "It seemed to me, then, that I experienced a sensation...shuddered and involuntarily let it fall upon the floor" (2,5). Like the spectators in chapter zz, he is drawn toward the letter only to be almost physically...

...sensed but could not analyze. When the narrator "happened to place [the letter] on his breast," he says: "I experienced a sensation not altogether physical,...the letter were not of red cloth, but red-hot iron " (32, italics added). The narrator's insistence on his own aesthetic response to the scarlet letter...

...community. When he places her scarlet letter on his own breast in 'The Custom-House,' he experiences 'a sensation not altogether physical, yet almost so,...the letter were not of red cloth, but red-hot iron.' The 'A' of the alienated artist is the subject of most of Hawthorne's tales. This warning from 'Wakefield,'...

...MY WORD!) that I experienced a sensation not altogether physical, yet almost so, as of burning heat, as if the letter were not of red cloth, but red-hot iron. (Hawthorne then reads from the parchment sheet.) HERE IS SKETCHED THE STORY OF HESTER PRYNNE, WHO LIVED...

...alphabetization. No sooner does the narrator bring the letter to his breast than it seems to change substance; "as if the letter were not of red cloth, but red-hot iron," it seems to have heated up. Hawthorne literalizes the maternal "stamping" effect. The narrator "shuddered,...