Dude, cobblestone streets HURT. Or at least the ones in Oxford did. (Joke, yes, I know, but still.)
Re: never being born: I wonder if that's foreshadowing, too, but Job wishes that he had never been born in Job 3; Jeremiah says more or less the same thing in Jer. 20:14-18; and Jesus is on record twice (Matt. 26:24 and Mark 14:21) as saying that it would have been better for Judas had he not been born. I definitely don't think it's a coincidence. However, I do keep waiting for someone to hit Dean with Gandalf's insight:
Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened. Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you.
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Date: 2011-10-26 06:53 am (UTC)Re: never being born: I wonder if that's foreshadowing, too, but Job wishes that he had never been born in Job 3; Jeremiah says more or less the same thing in Jer. 20:14-18; and Jesus is on record twice (Matt. 26:24 and Mark 14:21) as saying that it would have been better for Judas had he not been born. I definitely don't think it's a coincidence. However, I do keep waiting for someone to hit Dean with Gandalf's insight:
Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you.