The impressionistic question is always relevant: What interests you most in Book 1, and what do you find most enjoyable and/or instructive? The question of personal application is also relevant: What form have Augustine’s experiences and observations taken in your own life? In the brief second book, Augustine informs us about his sixteenth year. During the preceding four years he had attended school in a town twenty miles north of his hometown of Thagaste.* That school
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