the Confessions

Do you read with a pen or pencil and write in the margins as you go? Readers have been doing this as long as there have been manuscripts. Annotating the books we read can greatly enhance our enjoyment and memory of them!

Beyond simply underlining, here are some suggested symbols you could use to strengthen your own engagement with books 2 and 3 of Confessions:

* this is interesting to me

† deep, spiritual, inspiring

? I have a question about this

// This parallels something I have read elsewhere

∞ This connects to something else Augustine has said

! what a surprise

!!! say what!?

x I disagree

T this appears to be a theme in Augustine

wp this looks like an example of word-play

x3 Augustine expresses something in a triad