“There are two things of which you have assuredly had experience that are directly comparable to these things so eluding an effective description. The first, you probably don’t remember, but try to form a concept of the space of time between the moment your umbilical cord was cut and the first time you consumed sustenance of some kind with your mouth. What was the effect of hunger during that period? Did it have an intellectual component? I would propose that if you did anything at all in response to hunger before you’d experienced feeding, in addition to whatever description you might supply of your physical movements, or the sounds you made, it would be reasonable to say that you were also choogling at the time — striving for that for which you had no means to hope.

The other you are experiencing even now (that is, assuming you haven’t died reading this). For surely what the heart does, what we call beating, is also choogling.”

– WFMU’s Beware of the Blog (via Ami Tallman) on the origin of the term “Chooglin’,” as coined by John Fogerty. This is the best fucking thing I’ve ever read.