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SAINT AUGUSTINE

11 May 2022 4 71
In answer to the pagan challenge: “Why did your God create the universe at that arbitrary moment in time?” St. Augustine replied: “But that was when he created time too.” One of the most attractive personalities in the history of philosophy, Augustine was born in the town of Hippo in North Africa, in what is new Algeria, in AD 354. It was there that he died in AD 430, though between those two dates his travels took him far afield in the Mediterranean world. ~ Page 50 “LORD MAKE ME CHASTE, BUT NOT YET’ ~ St Augustine ~ Page 51 The most interesting philosophizing in the ‘Confessions’ -- appropriately for an authbiography is about nature of time: “If no one asks me [what time is] I know; if they ask and I try to explain, I don’t know.” . . . . Page 50 www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/hum100/augustinconf.pdf

Rain

29 Aug 2014 2 189
With thick strokes of ink the sky fills with rain. Pretending to run for cover but secretly praying for more rain. Over the echo of the water, I hear a voice saying my name. No one in the city moves under the quick sightless rain. The pages of my notebook soak, then curl. I’ve written: “Yogis opened their mouths for hours to drink the rain.” The sky is a bowl of dark water, rinsing your face. The window trembles; liquid glass could shatter into rain. I am a dark bowl, waiting to be filled. If I open my mouth now, I could drown in the rain. I hurry home as though someone is there waiting for me. The night collapses into your skin. I am the rain. "Rain" ` Kazim Ali