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| Lionel Trilling
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment. Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere. Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process. Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over. |
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