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Viscerality - by Simon Sarris - The Map is Mostly Water

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INTERVIEWER: There’s a certain esthetic to the way you live. You once talked about using good silver every day. DIDION: Well, every day is all there is. ~ ~ ~ Pleasure comes first from the senses. The naive pleasure seeker, the pleasure dilettante, will use his senses to search out the obvious delights. Naturally he finds several. Beyond these fundamentals, however, the landscape of pleasure is more mysterious. An essential belief of mine is that one should treat pleasure as something of a skill — it can be learned, cultivated, appreciated. We can study our senses and more for the sake of pleasure. A few notes towards that end. First: The modern world is in fact very pleasant. We have a thousand labor-saving devices. We are thoroughly accustomed to instant heat, cold, transportation, water, light. The elements are at our command in dials and switches. How ridiculous that must sound to most of history! How hard to believe. It matters very much that we remember and keep gratitude for the

INTERVIEWER: There’s a certain esthetic to the way you live. You once talked about using good silver every day. DIDION: Well, every day is all there is. ~ ~ ~ Pleasure comes first from the senses. The naive pleasure seeker, the pleasure dilettante, will use his senses to search out the obvious delights. Naturally he finds several. Beyond these fundamentals, however, the landscape of pleasure is more mysterious. An essential belief of mine is that one should treat pleasure as something of a skill — it can be learned, cultivated, appreciated. We can study our senses and more for the sake of…

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