Maybe Augustine
was right: we should wish nothing
more than to know God
and the soul. ‘No more!’
shouts the chorus in the sheer
silence of his in-
terior. Even
that wish can only be ful-
filled by accident
which, in retrospect,
means grace. So Augustine would
find, there’s always more.
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Tom D'Evelyn is a private editor and writing tutor in Cranston RI and, thanks to the web, across the US and in the UK. He can be reached at tom.develyn@comcast.net. D'Evelyn has a PhD in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley. Before retiring he held positions at The Christian Science Monitor, Harvard University Press, Boston University and Brown University. He ran a literary agency for ten years, publishing books by Leonard Nathan and Arthur Quinn, among others. Before moving to Portland OR he was managing editor at Single Island Press, Portsmouth NH. He blogs at http://tdevelyn.com and other sites.
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