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A Combination Of All That Was Best In The Gladdest Days Of The Departing Year.

I Prize The Depression, For Instance, Because I Learned The Value Of Things In The Depression That A Way People Who Don't Have To Worry About Such Things Never Learned To Prize It Really, I Believe.

The Point I Would Make Is That The Novelist And The Historian Are Seeking The Same Thing: The Truth – Not A Different Truth: The Same Truth – Only They Reach It, Or Try To Reach It, By Different Routes. Whether The Event Took Place In A World Now Gone To Dust, Preserved By Documents And Evaluated By Scholarship, Or In The Imagination, Preserved By Memory And Distilled By The Creative Process, They Both Want To Tell Us How It Was: To Re-create It, By Their Separate Methods, And Make It Live Again In The World Around Them.

A University Is Just A Group Of Buildings Gathered Around A Library.

As A Southerner I Would Have To Say That One Of The Main Importances Of The War Is That Southerners Have A Sense Of Defeat Which None Of The Rest Of The Country Has.