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a mixture of pain and pleasure

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a mixture of pain and pleasure

This is a step in the Creature's education, related to his encountering pain and pleasure from a single source in fire (paragraph 6 above), by which he learns the complex doubleness of emotional experience. Such ambivalent emotions, it is safe to say, were unknown in prelapsarian Eden.

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