[percy-l] quote source

Karl M. Terrell kterrell at stokeswagner.com
Wed May 27 13:45:01 EDT 2015


Well put.

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On May 27, 2015, at 1:42 PM, Lauren Stacy Berdy <lauren.stacy.berdy at gmail.com<mailto:lauren.stacy.berdy at gmail.com>> wrote:

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.

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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

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From: Skip Collins <skip.collins at gmail.com><mailto: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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