[percy-l] quote source

Lauren Stacy Berdy lauren.stacy.berdy at gmail.com
Wed May 27 10:55:12 EDT 2015


/shock of recognition/ is talked about in his interview with Zoltan 
abadi-nagy

about the quote know it but can't place it.........

and
do we think Rumsfeld read Dr. Percy?


On 5/26/2015 11:12 PM, janetcantor37--- via Percy-L wrote:
> Whatever I looked up, it only listed the quote as one of Percy's 
> famous ones. It gave no source so I am assuming he said it in a speech 
> at some point.
> Janet Cantor
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Skip Collins <skip.collins at gmail.com>
>
>
> Hello, I am new to the list, but have been reading Percy since
> college, around 1987.
>
> Percy's 99th birthday this week prompted me to search for a quote I
> have seen attributed to him:
> "Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us
> something we know but don’t know that we know."
>
> I have not been able to locate a source for the quote.
>
> This paradoxical idea of "unknown knowns" fills a gap in the
> Rumsfeldian epistemology of "known knowns," "known unknowns," and
> "unknown unknowns."
>
> Can anyone provide the source for the quote above? The closest I could
> find was from an interview he gave in the Paris Review in 1987,
> reprinted in More Conversations with Walker Percy:
> "The most commonplace example of the cognitive dimension in fiction is
> the reader’s recognition---sometimes the shock of recognition---the
> "verification" of a sector of reality that he had known but not known
> that he had known. I think of letters I get from readers, which may
> refer to a certain scene and say, in effect, yes! that’s the way it
> is!"
>
> -- 
> skip
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