"Confessions"

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In this essay, the writer explicates one paragraph from Book III of Confessions [Student at Carthage], the first, which appears in the Norton Anthology on pages 1229-1230. It explains that this passage seems especially personal and heartfelt, and, for its writer, possibly a difficult emotional and spiritual challenge.

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"This passage from Book III of Augustine's Confessions is replete with descriptions of carnal lust and spiritual confusion, which give way, later, to expressions of spiritual clarity and resolution. The passage expresses, within its intricate surprising interplay of metaphor and concrete language, a sense of the dialectical struggle within Augustine the man: between the earthly and the spiritual; the abstract and the concrete; the past and the future, the mortal man and the eternal soul."

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