Thoreau

[Perfectlap]

There is nothing simple or plain about a Porsche or any sports car for that matter. It was the product of tens of thousands of hours of engineering, millions of dollars in development, it has a a Bentley phonebook-sized manual for its upkeep, it requires a level of competence to drive safely the way it was engineered to be driven, it requires amounts of money the average person does not have to maintain it, it is a rolling financial liability for most ordinary household budgets.

My unsolicited opinion is that this is not at all what the author had in mind. A simple pleasure is something that will always be ingrained in your memory, cost you next to nothing to experience, and puts everything back in perspective. Examples: star-gazing, running on the beach, washing your dog, drinking ice tea on a hot day. Put it this way, the simpler the pleasure more it speaks to your clarity of mind at that moment. Personally I think this is why so many have overly-complicated lives.