With regard to salvation, the excision from memory of a pain endured is as significant as remembering the event that caused the pain. If well-being lies in memory, then must the memory not be of the kind that at its heart includes the forgetting of pain? For surely, as long as the pain is felt salvation remains incomplete. But perhaps we should not be so preoccupied with the pain of memory—at least not before we have reached the state of the blessed in the world to come, whose memories Augustine