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Confessions, volumes 5 and 6
by Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU (1712 - 1778)07 - "At Chambery they did not give us the trouble..."
"She was more to me than a sister, a mother, a friend, or even than a mistress, and for this very reason she was not a mistress; in a word, I loved her too much to desire her..."More of the amours of the twentysomething Jean-Jacques: here initiated into a strangely compromised manhood by his "maman" and perennial comforter -"Was I happy? No: I felt I know-not-what invincible sadness which empoisoned my happiness, it seemed that I had committed an incest, and two or three times, pressing her eagerly in my arms, I deluged her bosom with my tears. On her part, as she had never sought pleasure, she had not the stings of remorse..."(Introduction by Martin Geeson)
Listen next episodes of Confessions, volumes 5 and 6:
08 - "I am now about to relate another..." , 09 - "I now touch on the moment..." , 10 - "My uncle Bernard died at Carolina..." , 11 - "Any one would allow that it would have been..." , 12 - Vol. 6: "Hoc erat in votis..." , 13 - "Having left my scholars for so long..." , 14 - "From these studies I passed..." , 15 - "The writings of Port-Royal..." , 16 - "My health was not yet re-established..." , 17 - "We arrived at Valence to dinner..." , 18 - "I was so much better..." , 19 - "My impatience to arrive at Chambery..." , 20 - "Insensibly, I found myself desolate and alone..."