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Seeing the technique's influence in Ailey's Night Creatures, Streams, and Memoria, Ezzard likes knowing that he is following in the footsteps of powerful thinkers concerned with human rights. Augustine's memoria has a wider semantic range than its English translation and is a power that prevents the progress of the devotee towards self knowledge and towards God through raising obstacles such as desire and curiosity, but also a power which enables that progress through the recollection of God. It is clear that the Judeans of the first century were a mnemonic community in this sense, with an unusually large body of historical tradition, read out every sabbath in their synagogues, to sustain and enrich their communal memoria. |
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