"Truthfully, it is the fear of exposing my own ignorance which
constrains me from mentioning the object of my search. For, to begin
with, I cannot even answer this, the simplest and most basic of all
questions: Am I, in my search, a hundred miles ahead of my fellow
Americans or a hundred miles behind them? That is to say: Have 98% of
Americans already found what I seek or are they so sunk in everydayness
that not even the possibility of a search has occurred to them?
On my honor, I do not know the answer.”
― Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
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