The Confessions of Augustine

I think many people have a sense for at least today, the way that they were somehow caught within something that we can't quite get out of. Augustine really has a beautiful sense that neither right on our own. The sense of being a drift and not knowing how to get out. That suffuses the early books of the confessions. And then later when he goes off to Carthage in book three for an education, he gets trapped in what he calls a mannequin bird lime.