 the theft and sin itself.… Behold, now, let me heart tell Thee what it was seeking there, that I should be gratuitously wanton, having no inducement to evil but the evil itself. It was foul, and I loved it … I loved my own error – not that for which I erred, but the error itself. (Confessions Bk 2, Chap. IV, paragraph 9 [1876: 30])