This paper argues that the poetic metres of Boethius' Consolation
are an embodied means of Philosophy's therapy, which therapy is above
all the work of recollection. The poetic metres are arranged so as to
give the prisoner's memory a coherent structure, and, by stabilizing the
prisoner's present in the eternal now, mediate between time and
eternity. The Consolation's rhythmic-acoustic system, which is
comprehensive of every line of its poetry, enacts the theological
principles that govern the text as a whole, and give to it the character
of a repeated liturgical act.
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