And yet his intimates, and sometimes mere government clerks, had seen the giant collapse, convulsed with weeping, tortured with despair, his features twitching and distorted.
Towering waves crashed over the deck of his boat, threatening to drag him into the abyss, while the howling wind screamed like a thousand tormented souls.
Said to cause symptoms ranging from facial twitching to full body convulsions, the Babylonians believed those afflicted were possessed by evil spirits, and the only treatment was divine intervention.
But he did something else too. " During days of torture and nights of insomnia, " says Winkler, " John D. had time for reflection" . He began to think of other people.
但他也做了别的事。 “在受折磨的日子和失眠的夜晚,”温克勒说,“约翰 D. 有时间反思”。他开始为其他人着想。
'Father! Father! 'tis that which causes my Torment! Happy had it been for me, had my life been passed among the vicious and abandoned! Had I never heard pronounced the name of Virtue!
For some, this is a form of limbo between heaven and hell, but for ancient Chinese traditions, the tortured souls of those who cannot rest can be found in the capital city of hell.