The art of sound pictures (1930)

178 THE ART OF SOUND PICTURES b. Adult male passion expresses itself more frequently in self -abandoning attitudes and gestures, and longing expressions of eyes and face. Turning the head to look at a woman in such a way as not to be offensive to her is an effective minor or subtle expression of passion. In Oriental civilizations, slave girls are taught to walk always on their toes with bowed heads, eyes directed toward the floor, hands held in a certain prescribed position at their sides. c. In a case recently brought to our attention, a modem young woman, meeting for the first time a handsome man, reported that she experienced almost identically the bodily expressions of passion described by Sappho about 600 b.c. The young woman had never read Sappho, as far as we could leam. Sitting down to dinner with the man, the girl found her mouth so parched that she drank six or more glasses of water. She felt no appetite or tolerance for food, and the sight and smell of it on the table made her feel nauseated. This interference between passion and appetite, as far as bodily symptoms are concerned, results from the fact that passion (like submission) expresses itself predominantly by nervous excitement and determination of blood to the external genital organs. This reaction within the central nervous system tends to inhibit all activity in the nerves and organs concerned with digestion. Captivation Like passion, captivation is a compound of submission and inducement. Captivation, however, starts with submission in control, and gradually shows an increase of inducement at the expense of submission. A. Gross Behavior I. Illustrations a. Let us take up the case of Cleopatra and Mark Anthony at the point where we dropped it during our discussion of submission. Cleopatra, as we have seen, changed her style of manner very radically as an expression of her submission to Mark Anthony. As far