That is, can one's body turn on all of its senses only to receive pleasures in the absence of expectations, imaginations and memories associated with such a state of pleasure?

或者说，有没有可能我们的身体能开启它的每一种感应功能去接纳快乐，无需期望，幻想和记忆与此享乐的状态相连？

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There is something to be said, in the late afternoon of one's career, for having investments that can manage themselves perfectly well in one's absence.

ECONOMIST: Closing the deals

Hizbullah's excuse for keeping Lebanon's last one is paling in the absence of an Israeli occupation to resist.

ECONOMIST: Can Hamas and Hizbullah be domesticated via the ballot box?

Without knowing what would have happened in the absence of Bain's intervention, one can only guess.

ECONOMIST: Schumpeter