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Envy (n.) that ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the old feel toward the young is believed completely stifled — until it surfaces in a father's dream of his soldier son's accident.

Envy (n.) put ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the elegant gentleman in house slippers: the analyst who made the slip had just bought brown shoes no longer strikingly beautiful.

Envy (n.) addressed ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the letter: congratulating her sister on a grand new house, she sent it to the sister's first cramped home — “What a pity one's always so petty in such things!”

Envy (n.) cancels ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠like electric charge: a subject cannot bear contact with the king but can deal with a minister whose position seems attainable — small differences tempt less than great ones.

Envy (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a demand for reparation for early wounds to our narcissism: why did Nature not give us Balder's golden curls, Siegfried's strength, a royal palace instead of a middle-class home?