"For myself I would desire a combination of old romance and modern machinery" (echoing the sentiment of an earlier rural writer, Richard Jefferies, who wanted "the light railway to call at the farm gate").
-NORMAN DOUGLAS I would desire for a friend the son who never resisted the tears of his mother.
According to the informed desire account, the best life is the one I would desire if I were fully informed about all the (non-evaluative) facts.
If it were true of me that, were I fully informed I would desire some object which at present I have no desire for, giving me that object now would not benefit me.
"My advance was $600, which really allowed me the freedom to quit all my other jobs and live the life of luxury I'd always desired," she says.
Instead of going to college to study languages and become a translator, she went straight into West End theater, then into television before landing "My Summer of Love" when she was 20. "Acting became something I grew accustomed to doing rather than something I'd always desired," Ms. Blunt insisted.
In sleep, a Chariot drawn by wing'd desire, I saw, where sate bright Venus, Queen of love, And at her feet her son, still adding fire To burning hearts, which she did hold above.
She says of her marketed image, "I saw that I must be sold, for then I would be desired and I would be loved".
Yet, he continued, "I will make one more observation: If I had been born in space I know I would have desired to visit the beautiful earth more than I have ever yearned to visit in space".
Would this displease Bob Dylan, whom I would never desire to displease?
