It's a painting, and you're in the trompe l'oeil game, the main purpose of which is pleasurable confusion.
"Our primary drive is to dispel the feeling of hunger, which is pleasurable, but the evolutionary purpose is to make sure we don't starve and die," she pointed out.
As Hume formulates it, the problem is to explain the nature of the relationship between our approbation, which is pleasurable, and the presence of "sorrow, terror, anxiety," and other naturally disagreeable emotions (OT, 258).
Because partisanship is basically confrontational, a large part of this emotive force is that Justin Trudeau makes conservative heads explode, which is pleasurable on an almost visceral level.
— Karl O'Doherty (@karlodoherty) March 1, 2013 On the site, LangstoneHuge wrote a review of Lecture On Nothing, which I think she/he was praising more for being short and easy to sleep through than for being a well-delivered performance: Kept my fingers in my ears for the "very loud continuum of electronic sound", which was weirdly pleasurable.
You turned the page, and here it is, with few annoyances or distractions, in an ultra-high-definition typeface which was custom-designed with pleasurable reading in mind.
This omission does not stop the book having a compulsive, voyeuristic quality which is deeply pleasurable.
"The Graveyard Book is one of those books which is so pleasurable but it also stayed with us as judges for some time.
I'm not sure what that amounts to – he seems to flirt with notions of reincarnation and a kind of transcendental consciousness – but it allows him to flow freely into imaginary futures and pasts, which is highly pleasurable for the reader.
But it does seem inherent to the human constitution, and Hobbes gives a psychological-reflective basis to the propensity to this passion: glory involves a contemplation of one's own power, which is inherently pleasurable – and indeed closely related to the prospect of happiness (see Leviathan 13.4).
