I prefer the tropical option, the utter languor, health-defying tanning and guilty pleasure of ordering overpriced drinks while chaise-bound.
I've always got real pleasure from ordering and labelling things, but it's also important that I know where everything is – these aren't just swatches of fabric, they're my archive.
He takes pleasure in ordering for others at restaurants, whether a custard dessert for Alma at their first dinner together or a steak tartare for his sister and business partner, Cyril — "my little carnivore," he calls her, with affection and a hint of menace.
It is a pleasure to order Wiener schnitzel and know you are going to get a breaded and fried piece of veal, and that the roasted venison does not involve roasted venison essence infused into potatoes formed in the shape of a venison chop.
Then having a camera phone aimed your way became as much a part of life's pleasure and pain as ordering a coffee at Starbucks.
For, on the one hand, he is unusually alive to the pleasures of naming, categorising and ordering.
Thus a man who had always taken great joy in preparing, sharing and savoring food decided to give up his final sensory pleasure in order to go on living.
And their experiences of heterosexual sex were also supposed to be similar: Both men and women had to have orgasms because it was only in that heat that new people could be conceived — women needed to experience pleasure in order for fertilization to occur.
What is more, one must know something about the nature of pleasure in order to pursue it rationally, and likewise for pain.
"I didn't know anything about that time or those people, but I love history, so it was a pleasure to order books and documentaries.
