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Rumpus Book ClubBeyond the Pleasure Principle: One Woman’s Reading History
The Blurb · April 16th, 2009
by Rose Garrett
I recently read that revenge, in addition to sex and food, stimulates the pleasure centers of the brain, which explains why the settling of scores is often pursued with as much unbounded enthusiasm as philandering and doughnut holes. To that short list I would add book-reading, which might appear more high-minded than the rest, but which has revealed itself to me to be as base, vulgar, and fucking incredible as any of the seven sins. …more
