The writer who famously declared, in "Against Interpretation," "In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art," seems incapable of leaving physical pleasure alone for more than five seconds.
"Revenge" (10 p.m. EST, ABC) Our favorite guilty pleasure returns for more scheming in the Hamptons, as an unwelcome and unstable visitor makes a nightmare of Daniel's intimate birthday celebration with family and friends.
Pleasure breeds the desire for more pleasure, and objects of pleasure are many and varied.
But that short-term pleasure might make for more long-term pain if it reduced the current pressure for a badly needed examination of the Pakistan game's underlying weakness.
His solution, to forgo material pleasures for the more enduring ones of nature, is not among those chosen by the characters on "Desperate Housewives," the new hit television series.
There has been research about people who read for pleasure making themselves more intelligent, more emotionally intelligent, by reading stories because you understand people more through reading about them.
Simple pleasures ReprintsThe case for more rigorous exams is strong.
The genre's not about to give up the ghost (sequels to Pirates... and The Mask Of Zorro are on their way), for swashbuckling pleasures are called for more than ever now.
And for those who cook for families and not hordes, for pleasure more than paychecks, the process of confitting lamb ribs, then deep-frying them, may simply be too time- and equipment-intensive even for the project-mad.
We search for objects of pleasure, and then we search for more and different pleasure objects.
