> .. what would a medieval monk or a 17th-century preacher make of our complaints about modern distraction?
> I argue, they would, in all likelihood, find them strange...
> Donne uses the distraction he shares with his audience to forge both a community and a moment of attentiveness.
> Its rhetorical flair aside, Donne’s sermon expresses an old and fairly orthodox Christian view about distraction’s ubiquity... this view... St. Augustine
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