Cicero and Augustine ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Cicero and Augustine ~ The Imaginative Conservative

What will God, whose chief instrument is often irony, choose as His weapon to pull Augustine back from the brink? A book by Cicero. To Carthage then I came Burning burning burning burning      O Lord Thou pluckest me out O Lord Thou pluckest   burning… (T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land) Eliot’s allusion, among countless others strewn about the pages of the single most consequential poem of the last century—so many “fragments,” he called them, “shored …