turning Augustine of Hippo's book "The City of God", which he finished around 426AD, into a linked markdown document in Obsidian. Ive dont this to a couple books by converting them to .txt from PDF, and then reading through them and organizing them into linked documents. This process is helping me understand what is being written in unexpected ways. In seeing how its structured, you get a peek into the logic of the author, and it opens up the overall theme of what is being written. It chose this book kind of at random, but im seeing how relevant it is to now. It describes the decline of collapse of Rome from a first person perspective, the lies people told themselves to cope, and what the real reasons actually were. Then uses this as a basis for describing what a better civilization might look like.

Solomon wasnt lying then he wrote, "There is nothing new under the sun"