Bill Godshalk corrects my phrase "In the end one can perhaps only
have emotions in the present, but they can be involved with
experiences in past, present, or future" con brio as follows:
>Now, Tom, tell me what "future" experiences you have had. I seem to be
>timebound to the present, though, of course, I can remember (some)
>experiences from the past, and these remembrances of things past can color
>my emotions in the present. But I have never experienced anything in the
>future. Perhaps you miswrote?
But I think the phrasing will stand. My emotions in the present are
involved with experiences in past, present or future. Absit my
immediate death, I do confidently expect to have experiences in the
future, Bill, as I hope you will also, and I can think and feel about
them in the present in a number of ways, as in "Yesterday I was
happy, today I am not, but perhaps tomorrow I will feel like I did
yesterday."
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