The document contrasts sensual pleasures with intellectual pleasures. Sensual pleasures are described as fleeting and superficial, like soap bubbles, while intellectual pleasures are depicted as calm, beautiful, and ever-lasting, climbing toward the sublime. A short poem within suggests sensuality is transient, existing somewhere between hot sand and cool marble.

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2. 2 Sensuality : The quality or state of being sensual or lascivious. Lascivious : Given to or expressing lust

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10. 10 Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.

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22. Sensuality lies transfixed Somewhere between the Hot desert sand and the Cool, cool marble. 22

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26. Trinity 26 7/1/2009