Wednesday, July 12, 2017

We have a right to our anxiety

". . . Walker Percy, the novelist, contended that we have a right to our anxiety; it is not a symptom to be eradicated but a sign or gateway to the truth about our purpose as human beings.  To be born, to live, according to Percy, is to be alienated, to be lost or displaced in the cosmos."

Peter Augustine Lawler, Aliens in America: The Strange Truth About our Souls xix (2002).

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