Original artwork, not a still
Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it. Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Consequences are already present in the actions that cause them. Punishment ripens quietly inside the pleasure that hides it, just as fruit is contained in the seed. Means and ends are inseparable, so an outcome cannot be detached from what produced it.
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