Read this essay by Zadie Smith discussing the difference between pleasure and joy:
"Occasionally the child, too, is a pleasure, though mostly she is a joy, which means in fact she gives us not much pleasure at all, but rather that strange admixture of terror, pain, and delight that I have come to recognize as joy"
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"I like to hear about the Chinese girl he saw in the hall, carrying a large medical textbook, so beautiful she looked like an illustration."
ReplyDeletep.s. where can i meet the face in this picture ?!