December 25
For whom little is not enough, nothing is enough. Bread and water grant the pleasure of the gods, as soon as the hunger is real.
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For whom little is not enough, nothing is enough. Bread and water grant the pleasure of the gods, as soon as the hunger is real.
A question that occurs to you over dinner you can usually look up in a few seconds. The answer is correct, and by the next morning you've forgotten it. It is different with a question that has stayed with you for days because there happened to be no one around who could answer it. When you finally find the answer, it is often no wiser than the quick one. Even so, you keep it.
The difference, then, lies not in what you get but in what was there beforehand. A wish that has had time to form makes little into enough. A wish that is served at once hardly learns what it actually wanted.
Only, this is hard to bring about on purpose. If you prescribe yourself scarcity in order to enjoy more later, it easily becomes one more method of increasing the yield. Real hunger usually comes unbidden, and at first it is simply unpleasant.
Sometimes you leave a question open overnight anyway, even though the phone is lying next to you. In the morning it is still there, posed a little differently than the evening before.
