tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6451721549467305863.post3572236580413152525..comments2023-09-27T03:53:15.053-05:00Comments on HEAR!TSIDE: The People That You FollowAnna Gzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16490083395567100968noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6451721549467305863.post-5944847557444147982016-03-07T10:42:58.218-06:002016-03-07T10:42:58.218-06:00This made me want to weep. How beautiful that your...This made me want to weep. How beautiful that your sentences helped spark life in him again!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12283386766562066333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6451721549467305863.post-49622829451026315992011-05-26T12:43:33.516-05:002011-05-26T12:43:33.516-05:00This is amazingly close to Augustine's "C...This is amazingly close to Augustine's "Confessions" in so many ways:<br /><br />"There was a pear tree close to our own vineyard...a group of young scoundrels, and I among them, went to shake and rob this tree."<br /><br />"But since the pleasure I got was not from the pears, it was in the crime itself, enhanced by the companionship of my fellow sinners."<br /><br />"My will the enemy held, and thence had made a chain for me, and bound me."<br /><br />"Thus soul-sick was I, and tormented, accusing myself much more severely than my wont, rolling and turning me in my chain, till that were wholly broken, whereby I now was but just, but still was, held."<br /><br />"I had made the habit become so embattled against me; for I had willingly come to the place in which I did not wish to be"sethnoreply@blogger.com