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| 8 JuHarold Bloom & the Bishop of Hippo |
The Bishop of Hippo - Floria Aemelia & the Bitch
My not quite
human female cat Niña associates the noise of a spoon banged on her food tin
and at around 8pm she stares at me as she knows her routine. I say, “treats”, and she immediately reacts.
It was in 2021 on CBC Radio’s excellent program Ideas that I listened to a whole hour
account on St. Augustine, the Bishop of Hippo. What immediately got to me was
that he wrote that you hear a note in a song in the past, then in the present
and you can predict the one in the future. I would only correct what he said
that I would not apply to atonal music.
I believe
that association is human talent. When I picked up this leaf on my walk to
Safeway on Broadway and MacDonald I knew I was going to write this and
associate a leaf that is predicting fall in the middle of summer with St.
Augustine.