Something in the unctuous ease of Morris's listy sentences turns out to be highly addictive, and ultimately I found myself regarding her prose the way she often regards the places she writes about: with an exasperation at faults so endemic that it shades into a resignation that ultimately isn't all that different from delight.
We need management that has continuous innovation built into its DNA, with a different goal (delighting the customer), a different role for managers (enabling teams), a different way of coordinating work (dynamic linking), different values (continuous improvement and radical transparency) and different communications (horizontal conversations).
Mix weird tastes for a different culinary delight.
We can look forward to more, different and greater delights from technology, rather than more tools built by geeks for geeks.
Far from fearing people of different nationalities, Shakespeare delighted in the clash of cultures.
In the Guardian last Saturday (and in a different context), Alan Milburn delighted in throwing off "the shackles that yoke together values and policies, ends and means".
The more ethereal Matthew Rolston, who has worked with Foo Fighters and TLC, as well as making Salt-N-Pepa's Whatta Man video, is a different kind of delight.
But as the years passed, I came to see that my stepson's enjoyment of "Call of Doo-doo," as we call it in our home, is actually no different than his delight in any game that allows him to show off his skills to friends and far-flung strangers.
I was hoping for wet dreams, but instead got an entirely different brand of delight.
I frequently go through times when I commit to writing every day for an entirely different reason: for delight, for the curiosity of seeing what emerges from my mind via my fingertips on a keyboard or my right hand sliding a pen or pencil across a page.
