The Slings Of Desire

The Slings of DesireFor centuries philosophers from Ptahhotep to, well, Beck have provided us with myriad opinions on the wistful, wishful and sometimes painful state of desire. Not all of them have agreed. For example, do we subscribe to George Bernard Shaw's theory that "there are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it"? Or would we prefer to go along with poet William Blake's belief that "he who desires but acts not breeds pestilence&...