Goines On: Virtues of vices?

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Goines thought of the two Korean women in Soo Hugh’s drama series Pachinko talking about coffee. One remembered how good it smelled when she was poor and couldn’t afford to have any. And then, years later, when she tasted it, it put her off, she found it so bitter.
    Mrs. Goines reminded him that flowers were like that. Some of the most poisonous ones smelled the best.
    And they were beautiful, Goines thought, like iconic dangerous women. Did this have anything deep to do with the attractions of the deadly sins?
    He had already thought of lust’s uses in creativity and problem-solving. What about pride, greed, wrath, envy, gluttony, and sloth? Or would attempts to find justifiable uses for them be as conniving as the Holy Fathers’ carving out their panoply of opposed virtues and vices: capital, cardinal, theological?
    This might be fun to think about. Goines made a note.

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