When friends of mine suggested that I write an autobiography I was at first amused. Paul's neque meipsum iudico, his admission that he remained largely a mystery to himself and was even unable to say for certain that he was in the state of grace. Even for that, I would want to invoke St. What I have written is the truth, but of course it is not the whole truth, not even the fuller grasp I myself might have of it. Only a saint could be so unflinchingly honest about his life, and I-another needless disclaimer-am no saint. The septuagenarian finds self-delusion difficult, and there is an account of my life that could be of interest only to God and myself. In writing these memoirs I have been conscious of the fact that I am not writing the story of a soul that would be an altogether more depressing exercise. Augustine may sound as gratuitous as saying that none of my novels is War and Peace, but the remark has point. To say that this book is not the Confessions of St.
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ONE: Reflections in a Golden I TWO: Biosphere THREE: Spoiled Priest FOUR: Paterfamilias FIVE: Europe SIX: Author SEVEN: Learning How to Die EIGHT: Notre Dame NINE: Vatican II TEN: Editor and Publisher ELEVEN: International Catholic University TWELVE: On the Banks of the Mainstream ONE: REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN I Eliotįorsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.-Virgil CONTENTS
The best of a bad job is all the most of us make of it-except of course the saints.-T.
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