The idea is also similar to Smeagol in The Lord of the Rings series because just holding onto the ring without slipping it on is enough to keep him in a pleasurable state because he knows the pain that he will endure if it is taken away from him. When he does lose it, he is willing to travel to the other end of Middle Earth to attempt to get the feeling back and is even willing to die trying to retrieve the feeling of sublimity, which is not created through an overwhelming emotion of euphoria instead through a resolution to the pain that he endures without the ring. ...

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