“If we must tempt to Pleasure, how do we tempt to the least amount of Pleasure? Or better yet, tempt them to its opposite? But how to tempt them to pain.” PainReligionPleasureChristianityAddictionChristian FictionGrimrack Author:Geoffrey Wood
“The trick here is, while the actual pleasure begins to recede and blur, we simultaneously bring the imagined pleasure more fully into focus. And when we do, even the memory of the pleasure becomes more and more heightened and imagined, thus anticipation is increased. This kind of anticipation is the spiritual equivalent of a Cheeto and we want them to eat the whole bag.” ReligionPleasureChristianityAddictionAnticipationChristian FictionGrimrack Author:Geoffrey Wood
“Turning an experience about to observe it, results in a lessening of the experience directly proportional to the amount of observation. To think about it is, to some degree, to stop the pleasure, to stop the experience, to step outside it.” PainReligionPleasureChristianityExperienceAddictionChristian FictionGrimrack Author:Geoffrey Wood
“And so, wish becomes pang; the crave, an ache; pleasure, pain. Losing all its pleasure, anticipation cuts the opposite direction and becomes merely a constant, painful reminder of what they’ve lost, forever.” PainReligionPleasureChristianityAddictionAnticipationChristian FictionGrimrack Author:Geoffrey Wood
“An imagined pleasure is never really the pleasure, but an imagined pain, in a very real sense, is the pain, because so much of pain is the consciousness of it. It makes itself objective. Whereas to think about pleasure is to step outside of it; to think about a presently felt pain is to step inside it. And in a very real sense, we’ve already got them in Hell.” PainReligionPleasureChristianityAddictionChristian FictionGrimrack Author:Geoffrey Wood
“Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it’s just better form.” ReligionChristianityAddictionDenialChristian FictionGrimrack Author:Geoffrey Wood
“With addiction, a client’s fears can be ripened into some very pleasing fruit: Irritability, suspiciousness, isolation, paranoia, and finally on to that grand banana —the fear of Fear itself.” ReligionFearChristianityAddictionChristian FictionGrimrack Author:Geoffrey Wood
