[percy-l] quote source

Lauren Stacy Berdy lauren.stacy.berdy at gmail.com
Wed May 27 13:38:05 EDT 2015


all humans are in a predicament the predicament of being a human
a knothead is part of this mad picnic everyone is in the basket
Dr Percy sucked crayfish with known Klansman......
we are all in trouble



On 5/27/2015 12:30 PM, Karl M. Terrell wrote:
> Rumsfeld?  Doubtful.  He's a Knothead.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On May 27, 2015, at 11:13 AM, Lauren Stacy Berdy 
> <lauren.stacy.berdy at gmail.com <mailto:lauren.stacy.berdy at gmail.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>> /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!"
>>>
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>>> skip
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