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There is deep pleasure to be had...

Posted by ESC on October 19, 2007

In Reply to: There is deep pleasure to be had... posted by Sara on October 19, 2007

: What could be the meaning of "There is deep pleasure to be had in cement and gravel, cemeteries and the overgrown gardens of people who don't care."

: The context is a piece that is talking about how bad it can be to have everything perfect. it's said that there is no future in perfection and nowhere left to go. then in the next paragraph after that it says that there is pleasure in decay, ... there is pleasure in states of disrepair, disuse, the doomed ...

There is pleasure in work to be done? A state of perfection would be static. Boring. That's my guess.

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