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Tuesday, 12 January 2021

The only motive that can be recognised is towards enjoyment, anything else besides, say for exploration and discovery rather than truth (which is frankly unappealing) is only to serve enjoyment, either to enhance it or to supply motive for motive, or else is plain bad faith. There must be other unrecognised motives since enjoyment is so thwarted, but perhaps they amount to no more than ways of sustaining enjoyment's situation. The choice is less inevitable than it seems and might just as well be otherwise: there is no enjoyment of enjoyment, it is simply an uncritically accepted and ill-fitting habit, and escape from noia.

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