Friday, October 16, 2009

PLEASURE


On our way to St. George,Utah to attend the World Senior Games, we drove through the Virgin River Gorge. The landscape is vast varied colorful rocky mountains.
I could feel the presence of something powerful and kind.

"What is it that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked; that you are beholding that human eye has not seen before; that you are breathing a virgin atmosphere. To give birth to an idea-to discover a great thought-an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain-plow had gone over before...To be first-that's the idea. To do something,say something, see something before anybody else-these are the things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace...These are the men who have really lived-who have actually comprehended what pleasure is-who have crowded long lifetimes of ecstasy into a single moment."-Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad (1869)

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