Think not of the wild diversity of desires but of the equally wild and unpredictable yearnings that underpin desires, because in them you more readily recognise the strange sense of original possession that you have in them. The drive to satisfy desires vastly exceeds the quantum of pleasure that you derive from their satisfaction, even when you factor in the meta-satisfactions such as the social proof that ensues on the fact that you are demonstrably capable of attaining satisfaction, what could be called with a certain irony the honour and pride of desire. To authentically desire means to not be prepared to cede in any way, to be firm to the point of death, or of murder if necessary. If it were not a matter of asserting some prior and inalienable possession then the cost of sublimating or refracting the desire, would not be as great and as consequential as it is. There is a fiery nucleus to every desire and whatever you are as an identity emerges unconsciously from the centre of that - so that even terms like possession and ownership understate the case, they are already social mediations one step removed from the unspeakable point of origin.