Practice question · True or false
Augustine’s analysis of memory in book ten is a digression from the autobiography rather than a consequence of it.
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- Ask what the narrative books were made of.
- A life recollected is a life held in memory.
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False
Why
False. The narrative is built entirely out of memory, so an account of what memory is follows directly from having written nine books of it. Augustine notices that he has been using a faculty he cannot explain, and stops to explain it.
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