The stream of feeling which constitutes the undertow of consciousness originates outside of the brain altogether, and is composed of currents arising from viscera, muscles, blood-vessels and glands.

Such action on this coast, where the surf rolls high and creates an undertow, is nothing less than foolhardy.

It gave a little undertow of funk to the mood of lively curiosity with which I got aboard the waterplane this morningthat sort of faint, thin funk that so readily invades one on the verge of any new experience; when one tries one's first dive, for example, or pushes off for the first time down an ice run.

[Note 2: Meaning the undertow of surf.