Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
Samuel AlexanderThe thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
Samuel AlexanderThe interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
Samuel AlexanderHence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.
Samuel Alexander