Augustine & Wittgenstein

[Jane]

Thomas, 

I have been thinking about your post of 9 June. 

Thanks so very much! 


I have just read Augustine's Confessions again. 
This time, after reading O'Donell's Remarks and some other
stuff,  very postmodern if you can dig that, I returned to
V. and suspect now that I have over emphasized the "living
critter" that is Malta, the sweet Mediterranean earth,
although I remain convinced that Fausto IV does not
represent P's POV, I am almost in agreement, the
existentialism seems too obvious to be ignored, at this
point in P's development he has not quite thrown off that 
existentialism and come to terms with his Catholicism.  So,
I think pointing us to the  Freudian "mother confessor"
(MMV), although there it  is Thomas A. that he seems to be
grappling with, a no-man's-land (between Eliot's Wasteland
and Hemmingway's THEY) and Mortality/Morality refuted by the
Mother of the Jesuit/Jew. 

In any event, it's all down under the ground now. 

Just one gal's opinion, 

Jane

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