“My aunt is convinced I have a "flair for research."”

— Walker Percy, book The Moviegoer

This is not true. If I had a flair for research, I would be doing research. Actually I'm not very smart. My grades were average. My mother and my aunt think I am smart because I am quiet and absent-minded–and because my father and grandfather were smart. They think I was meant to do research because I am not fit to do anything else–I am a genius whom ordinary professions can't satisfy.
The Moviegoer (1961)

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Southern philosophical novelist 1916–1990

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