“There are only two emotions – pleasure and pain. Each has its variations: joy, love, happiness, rapture, fun, ecstasy, thrill, bliss, and many others on one hand, and anguish, dread, anxiety, terror, grief, humiliation, malaise, misery, stress, remorse, and many others on the other hand. But at heart life gives us only one or the other.”
- McKee, Robert. Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principals of Screenwriting. ReganBooks: New York, 1997. pg 243
I wonder if life truly is this simple. Can it be a dichotomy between two things with just variations on one or the other? I mean, if there are only two emotions, maybe there are only two of everything. I mean, there are only two sexes, right? And there are only two activities; work and play. And there are only two things to do with the written word; read or write. Hmm, I think he might just have something here.
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