textbook love

Ah! At last! Another wonderful sentence. I'm sure there have been more in the interim  but in the busy seasons of academic life, I so quickly lose the joy of reading and simply want to finish. The LORD has worked wonders in this past week though and given me such energy and joy in this, my present calling. And then he gives me a lovely treat like this, just waiting for me in the pages.

" 'It was a moment of effervescence that broke the dike of dictatorship and transformed my life,' Seguel recalled in 1989." Pamela Constable and Arturo Valenzuela. A Nation of Enemies: Chile Under Pinochet. 1991: 242.