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In Augustine and the Fundamentalist's Daughter, Margaret Miles weaves her memoirs together with reflections on Augustine's Confessions. Having read and reread Augustine's Confessions, in admiration as well as frustration, over the past thirty-five years, Miles brings her memories of childhood and youth in a fundamentalist home into conversation with Augustine's effort to understand his life. The...

But this does not account for his feverish anxiety to understand time. Why such anguished appeals to God to allow him to understand? What is at stake for him? I suggest that Book 11 should be read as a sequel to Book 10. In Book 10, he finds the self in memory. He found the power of memory terrifying . . . and this thing is the mind, and this thing is myself (10.17). In Book 11, he locates the self in time. Memory and time are intimately connected; memories occur in time but remain, across time,
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