Pleasures of a Tangled Life (1989)

by Jan Morris

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A celebration of the positive by a well-known travel writer, this autobiography sets forth the author's views on the pleasure principle, among many other things.

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Very enjoyable, lovely writing, reminiscences on matters various from many corners of life. (

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But Abyssinian cats, dining in restaurants, the public versus the private American character, the real joys of nontouristic travel, the pain of bad reviews and the evanescence of fame are all topics that make gripping reading, quite independently of the confusing sexual viewpoint of their author.

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1989

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To the best of all my Pleasures: my love and my children, their loves and their children.

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When Plato and Socrates (to start at the top) reached a compromise about the nature of the Good, they decided that while stern Intelligence must play a predominant part in it, sensual Pleasure came an important second.

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