{"title":"Introductory","authors":"M. Pomerance","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474428682.003.0001","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Criticism is always that: an eternal return to a fundamental pleasure.\n Serge Daney\n “We awaked from sweet repose after the luscious fatigues of the night. I got up between nine and ten and walked out till Louise should rise. I patrolled up and down Fleet Street, thinking on London, the seat of Parliament and the seat of pleasure.” So, on Thursday, 13 January 1763, rhapsodized James Boswell in his London diary (140), reflecting upon a night of amorous encounter—one of his first—and his prospects and hopes of achieving some position of consequence either in the army or in government. Here was a man making his way in the world and finding its stimulations and treasuring and reflecting back upon them, as through his days he lived out the ...","PeriodicalId":241284,"journal":{"name":"Cinema, If You Please","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Cinema, If You Please","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474428682.003.0001","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Criticism is always that: an eternal return to a fundamental pleasure.
Serge Daney
“We awaked from sweet repose after the luscious fatigues of the night. I got up between nine and ten and walked out till Louise should rise. I patrolled up and down Fleet Street, thinking on London, the seat of Parliament and the seat of pleasure.” So, on Thursday, 13 January 1763, rhapsodized James Boswell in his London diary (140), reflecting upon a night of amorous encounter—one of his first—and his prospects and hopes of achieving some position of consequence either in the army or in government. Here was a man making his way in the world and finding its stimulations and treasuring and reflecting back upon them, as through his days he lived out the ...