A little disappointing, both somewhat misinterpreted the quote, but Adonis did a greater misdeed in misrepresenting the biographical character. Augustine of Hippo was really ahead of his times in a lot of ways. Things like “What's the point for you're Golden Crown? What's the purpose of Ruby's surrounding you're Gown?” do not fit at all. Apart from being demographically wrong, he was a North African theologian - not a decadent Vatican cardinal, they are also wrong on a thematic level. Augustine’s writing heavily influenced Saint T. Aquinas who developed the philosophy of Natural Law which at that time was called Divine Law but later became individual libertarianism and (after WWII) became the basis for Human Rights. So in a way, Augustine of Hippo might have been the original spark for the Human Rights movement. This is what both uploads missed, the Rights-focused aspect, while timeless only missed it, Adonis misrepresented it – and there were also many errors that interrupted the reading. Overall, timeless was unambitious in his metaphorical comparison of war/natural disaster alternate universe but didn’t make any large blunders, while Adonis had a few (E.g., the condensation of 2000yrs Christian history into 4-5 sentences was maybe a bit too ambitious?) that made it difficult to enjoy reading. Voting for timeless.
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