> I pretended I knew about the poem just now so you all would think of me as literary and cultured.
One time I was in Half Price Books in the aisle *next to* the Christianity aisle, and the thought occurred to me that in some thread on the internet I had been quoting the one tagline from St Augustine that everyone knows "Lord make me chaste BUT NOT YET" (whimsical! relatable!), but that I had never read the book it came from (or, to be clear, any book by anyone whose name starts with "Saint"), and struck in the moment by a somewhat vain desire not to be intellectually dishonest (because I generally do not quote sources I have not read) I ventured into the Christianity aisle and bought Confessions of St Augustine and went home and read it, and someone could write an epic disaster poem about that also.
Dec 10, 2024
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