Jiang reads the pear theft as Augustine's argument that humans sin from pleasure, not need, because human nature itself enjoys wrongdoing.
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Pear Theft
Jiang reads the pear theft as Augustine's argument that humans sin from pleasure, not need, because human nature itself enjoys wrongdoing.
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"And the one thing that you will learn in life is whenever a politician or a powerful individual writes a memoir, it's complete BS,..."
"And this starts from the womb, OK? We are born in sin. We are born of sin. I saw something which I had in..."
"a gang of naughty adolescents set off late at night after we had continued our game in the streets. We carried off a huge..."
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