Posted by Bartholomew on December 29, 2000 at 18:21:23:
In Reply to: emily dickinson posted by dean on December 29, 2000 at 16:43:26:
: the heart asks pleasure first and then excuse from pain and all those little anodynes that deaden suffering and then to go to sleep and then if it should be the will of its inquisiter the privelige to die.
Freaky. We think about all the same things, but we arrive at different conclusions on all of them.
I say, the heart asks for pleasure when it isn't in pain, and excuse from pain when it is in pain. For example, if you step on a hot waffle iron, you don't immediately think of massaging your foot. You immediately think of getting your foot off the waffle iron (assuming that somehow your foot stayed there long enough to think about it without a reflex action to get your foot off it. Maybe the entire floor is covered in hot waffle irons)