Things which are only pleasurable because of the unpleasantness which went before.

• The burning tingling of cold fingers warming up.
• Feeling better after throwing up.
• Once back at home, thinking about eating a tangerine and drinking very cold water from a rinsed-out milk bottle while sitting on a stone behind a low wall, the only shelter from the wind on the top of a cloud-bound mountain.
• Waking up with no headache after falling asleep while ill.
• The engineer has visited, and now it works.
• Coming into a cool, dark building on a day when the light and heat burn my head.
• A stuffy warm office after a walk on a morning when a knife-sharp wind is blowing.