Corpsey
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Chapter 1 of Jean Jacques Rousseau's 'Confessions'
http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/Rousseau/conf01.html
http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/Rousseau/conf01.html
his sighs, the convulsive pressure of his arms, witnessed that a bitter regret mingled itself with his caresses, though, as may be supposed, they were not on this account less ardent.
When he said to me, "Jean Jacques, let us talk of your mother," my usual reply was, "Yes, father, but then, you know, we shall cry," and immediately the tears started from his eyes. "Ah!" exclaimed he, with agitation, "Give me back my wife; at least console me for her loss; fill up, dear boy, the void she has left in my soul. Could I love thee thus wert thou only my son?" Forty years after this loss he expired in the arms of a second wife, but the name of the first still vibrated on his lips, still was her image engraved on his heart.
Great start, fellas! :crylarf:
Do the Bible with me. I'm only on Samuel, you'll both catch up in no time.
No-one lived that long, I'm pretty sure that Methuselah was the oldest and compared to that he was a mere whippersnapper at nine hundred something.'A whimsical look at the Bible!'
Mind you it is so presposterous - this guy lived 500 years and this guy lived 235 years and this guy lived 3546 years