The salvation of art derives in the best of modern times from a celebration of the triumph of the autonomous self—as in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony—and in the worst of times from naming the unspeakable: the strange and feckless movements of the self trying to escape itself. Exhilaration comes from naming the unnameable and hearing it named.
Walker Percy, born on this day in 1916, from Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
As a guest with Eudora Welty on Firing Fine, December 12, 1972 ...
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