tb talking about your investing acumen or your late nights with Tekbaby?
"I see myself as playing a different role--that of the tragic hero, acting out a fall from grace and providing the stunned LTB&H audience with an educational catharsis. Aristotle set out the rules of the genre in the Poetics:
"For the finest form of tragedy, the plot must not be simple but complex; and further it must imitate actions arousing fear and pity....
"There are three forms of plot to be avoided. (1) A good man must not be seen passing from happiness to misery, or (2) a bad man from misery to happiness. The first situation is not fear-inspiring or piteous, but simply odious to us. The second is the most untragic that can be.... Nor should (3) an extremely bad man be seen falling from happiness into misery. Such a story may arouse the human feeling in us, but it will not move us to either pity or fear; pity is occasioned by undeserved misfortune, and fear by that of one like ourselves....
"There remains, then, the intermediate kind of personage, a man not preeminently virtuous or just, whose misfortune, however, is brought upon him not by vice or depravity but by some error of judgment....
"The plot should be so framed, moreover, that even without seeing the things take place he who simply hears the account of them shall be filled with horror and pity at the incidents...."
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