/lit/ - Literature

>>19004543
>pleasure is a very broad and permitting word
True. I was being a semantic ass about that. But I do stand by that point."Pleasure" is such a loaded term that it demotes Therese experience to something material and cerebral. Not something transcendent or spiritual.
>My addition on to that anon's critique does not assume Christianity is true
But Anon... Christianity is true!
>What's wrong with going mad?
I think going mad is the best case scenario if you're not a christian, but i believe there's a greater truth in suffering and that we shouldn't crack like eggs and escape into a neverending dreamland like in the end of Brazil.