Reminiscing
“How naturally a common meal serves for a symbol of
fraternity; how easily a scratch party of guests get on together if you take
them out for a picnic in the open air! Just imagine what it must have meant,
later on, if one of those five thousand met, by accident, one of the others;
what fellowship must have been imposed on them by their common store of
reminiscences! ‘Yes, don’t you remember, I was sitting about seven or eight off
you, and Peter — or John, or James, or Judas — came round with the crust which
looked as if it could never satisfy more than two; we both seemed to be in
starvation corner, didn’t we? And then when he got to the end of the row the
crust was still there.’”
~Georges Chevrot
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