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Does it really inspire joy? Or does it just give pleasure? They are not the same.


Imagine a hot summer day. You are lying under the shade of a peach tree, because it is too hot to be out in the sun. A perfectly ripe, almost too ripe, peach drops off the tree. You pick it up and take a bite. The flesh tastes better than any candy. The juice drips down your chin.

Is that merely pleasure, or is it joy?




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