…can feel them as the rich, contextual embeddedness of your own being, but you can't communicate them. Sometimes when I read Marcel Proust, I come upon passages where the conveyance of the information, of the emotion is so exquisitely subtle that I have the…

…your place in history. The 20th century has been very chaotic. We are asked to make sense of a great deal, you know, from Marcel Proust to the Third Reich to Jackson Pollock to the moon flights, all of this stuff. And in a sense, we must make the…