In visualizing pride, what kinds of criteria be used, and in what manner most effectively - without becoming a leitmotif of selective bias, a form of polemics, of propagandizing pollyannisticness instead of adhering to the requisites of the 'selective re-presentation' which honesty demands?   For one, it can of course emphasize the positive - not that decay is not all around as a particle of life, but that it is, like pain itself, of minor importance to the living, let alone the flourishing...