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The matter of heaven and earth is one, the beauty of heaven and earth is another.
Even when I disagree with Augustine, there is a subtlety to his mind and a blazing passion that comes through in his writing. This still resonates after more than a millennium, though today it is for his probing writing on memory and time rather than as a how-to guide for conversion. Augustine prefigured much of what we consider original in the modernists’ streams of consciousness and our current obsession with auto-fiction. This remains the key to all of Augustine’s other works and a seminal work in world literature.
The matter of heaven and earth is one, the beauty of heaven and earth is another.
Even when I disagree with Augustine, there is a subtlety to his mind and a blazing passion that comes through in his writing. This still resonates after more than a millennium, though today it is for his probing writing on memory and time rather than as a how-to guide for conversion. Augustine prefigured much of what we consider original in the modernists’ streams of consciousness and our current obsession with auto-fiction. This remains the key to all of Augustine’s other works and a seminal work in world literature.
