Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.
- Chinese proverb
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Commencement: done.
Grading: not quite.
The
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refers to anhedonia as one of the two core symptoms
of depression; the other core symptom is depressed mood itself.
Sean Carroll is disappointed with academia, at least as revealed through the Chronicle of Higher Ed's article on guilty pleasures of academics
... but for ecstasy, a goat.