I saw myself, too, from the dramatic standpoint, and I was pleased with my role of the trusted friend bringing back the errant husband to his forgiving wife.
However, he did not get to enjoy it for long, because in January, 1669 , an errant spark from a pig roast went into the oxford's powder magazine blowing up the ship.
Now, the classical spiritual tradition refers to this errant desire as ''concupiscence, '' but l think we could translate the idea very effectively with our more modern term of ''addiction.''