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expositions-85	none	On Reading St. Augustine’s Confessions	2008	24	.pdf	application/pdf	9502	448	61	In Confessions Augustine—like Cer- vantes in Don Quixote—wishes to inform the mind, stir the spirit, and elevate the soul. Expositions (print) ISSN 1747-5368 doi:10.1558/expo.v2i1.059 Expositions (online) ISSN 1747-5376 On Reading St. Augustine’s Confessions1 Todd BrEyfogLE The Aspen Institute This essay is intended as a guide for beginning readers of Augustine, for teachers charged with helping these readers understand Augustine, and for those interested in a problem that confronted Augustine first as a reader and eventually as an author: how does a book help us understand ourselves even as we understand its author?	cache/expositions-85.pdf	txt/expositions-85.txt