chit chat that day
openjoe:
Forgive the length, but I simply must quote from Thomas Traherne about the light of infancy.
Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.
All appeared new, and strange at first, inexpressibly rare and delightful and beautiful. I was a little stranger, which at my entrance into the world was saluted and surrounded with innumerable joys. My knowledge was Divine. I knew by intuition those things which since my Apostasy, I collected again by the highest reason. My very ignorance was advantageous. I seemed as one brought into the Estate of Innocence. All things were spotless and pure andglorious: yea, and infinitely mine, and joyful and precious, I knew not that there were any sins, or complaints or laws. I dreamed not of poverties, contentions or vices. All tears and quarrels were hidden from mine eyes.
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at 03:25PM 09/05/08