91-13 (I) What Went Wrong -THE BETRAYAL Narrated By Oracal Synl thur AEmie

In Envy, Joseph Epstein quipped that, of the deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all. ‘Envy’ derives from the Latin invidia, which means ‘nonsight’. In the Divine Comedy, Dante has the envious laboring under cloaks of lead, their eyelids sewn shut with leaden wire. This etymology suggests that envy either arises from, or results in, a form of blindness— or maybe both. For envy to take root, three conditions must be met. • First, we must be confronted with a person (or persons) with a superior quality, achievement, or possession. • Second, we must desire that quality for ourselves, or wish that the other person lacked it. • And third, we must be pained by the associated emotion. In sum, envy is the pain caused by the desire for the advantages of others.