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Similarly, when in Chapter XXXIV of the same novel, Mrs. Bute reminds her husband that “You'd have been screwed in goal, Bute, if I had not kept your money,” she was not speaking of pleasures deferred.
The candies and goodies inside the piñata were the unknown pleasures that Satan held out to attract man.
Court life was luxurious, though Islamic scholarship did find a place next to worldly pleasures.
All this soft-focus packaging conveys the popular image of Claude Monet (1840-1926) as the painter of weekend pleasures, puttering around in his aqueous garden and filling his canvases with sunlit lilies reflected in the pink and blue water--a rococo Fragonard or Boucher marooned in the early 20 th century.
But what we get is mostly less than meets the eye: the erudition of the cocktail party and the emotional range of a good TV sitcom, middlebrow pleasures dressed up in the trappings of high learning--modernism without difficulty.