John Morreall (1987, 204 205) argues that a number of aesthetic categories— the grotesque, the macabre, the horrible, the bizarre, and the fantastic involve a non-humorous enjoyment of some violation of our mental patterns and expectations.
And I read non fiction for enjoyment and learning.
The transformations happening in all these mundane venues –the gym, the parking lot, the restaurant – reveal that, once an informational layer is added on top of them, they might lose other layers and especially those of non-utilitarian, purely aesthetic enjoyment, solidarity and fairness.
For them, politics does not concern the theoretically complex justification of ends, but rather facilitates the enjoyment of "non-political" ends such as "country", "family" and "religion" (Ashford 1990: 40 1).
On a plausible rendering of the term 'domination' as, roughly speaking, arbitrary or uncontrolled power (see Wartenberg 1990; Pettit 1996, 1997, 2012; Lovett 2001, 2010a), we might equivalently say that freedom in the republican sense consists in the secure enjoyment of non-domination.
First few times it was nice [before many participants dropped out](1063, male, 67, Antillean, smokes less, infrequent attender) Reasons given for this loss of enjoyment included non-attendance by others (previously known to the participant or not), something occurring during sessions, or quitting and thus not finding the sessions useful any more.
Visitors find that what they are reacting to is not 990 pieces of art but just one mind, adding to its abilities and extending its perceptions non-stop and with total enjoyment over a span of 78 years.
It's a badge of French's talent that the two books featuring the Mackeys can be read with enjoyment separately or non-chronologically, but regular readers gain an extra level from the backstories, as, crucially, do the fictional figures, who become layered with memories, secrets and sensitivities in the way that real people are.
Unlike Squiggle, which included a music and visual element from the start, I didn't want to make this into a instrument, so I made it non-interactive and purely for enjoyment.
Griffiths, famous for his long run of studies about fruit-machine gamblers, instructs us: "Dacryphilia is a non-normative sexual interest that involves enjoyment or arousal from tears and crying, and to date, it has never been researched empirically.
An example surfacing a bit later serves both to reinforce the distinction between such non-rational enjoyments and the rational enjoyment of beauty and to introduce the distinction between the admiration of representative beauty for its own sake and that for the sake of the original.
