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Article: Friendship & desire: Augustine reviews `Will & Grace'.
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- Commonweal
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- September 27, 2002
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Will and Grace are the main characters in NBC's wildly successful sitcom about the relationship between a gay man of deliberate sensibility (he's a lawyer) and a free-spirited straight woman (she's an interior designer) who share a New York City apartment. As Catholics of a certain age and education will also know, "will" and "grace" are also the main categories used by Augustine to map the complicated terrain of the human psyche.
After catching a few episodes of Will & Grace over the past couple of years, I wondered what Augustine would say about the lives and loves of the two main characters. Such speculation is not quite as crazy as it sounds. Augustine was ...