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YankeeReb
(69.92.85.109) on 9/21/2006 - 10:01 a.m. says: ( 6 views
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""First principles, Aubiece. Read Marcus Aurelius."
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(EDITED BY AUTHOR: 9/21/2006 - 10:13 a.m.) Of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? What is its nature? What does he do, this man you seek?
Aubiece : He coaches Auburn football--
No! That is incidental. What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by coaching?
Aubiece: Joy, career achievement, fame--
No, he covets. That's his nature. And how do we begin to covet, Aubiece ? Do we seek out things to covet? Make an effort to answer.
Aubiece : No. We just--
No. Precisely. We begin by coveting what we see every day. Does War Eagle's eyes see the morsel at midfield, Aubiece? You cannot see how it couldn't. And don't Auburn eyes move to the scoreboard at the end of the Iron Bowl?
Aubiece : Yes.
Yes, and that is what he wants, what he covets...out of a smokey tunnel hand in hand with his team... to see a tree wrapped in toilet paper on Sunday morning...and to give a smirk in fair Oxford one autumn day every two years...
Aubiece : But, he has that.
Yes, he covets what he already has.
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