What distinguishes pleasure from the blind satisfaction of want is the instinct's refusal to exhaust itself in immediate satisfaction, its ability to build up and use barriers for intensifying fulfillment.
Gyrus: Hi Garrett, the “argument” here is admittedly trivial in the scheme of things, but the issues are pretty clearly laid out. What was it you...
Garrett: Just read your old article about Doc Hyatt’s undoing book. The I read the current article, under which I’m posting this comment. Funny argument,...
Joel: I might add that those words in British English that have to be -ise and can’t be -ize are also -ise in American English, such as ‘advertise’...
Joel: I think I mentioned before that apart from the single exception of ‘capsize’ the ending -ise is never wrong in British English, whereas -ize...
Gyrus: when you start arbitrarily capping up I think we’re agreeing that the “rules” are partly arbitrary anyway, so it’s tough to internalize...
