“You live in a deranged age - more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.”

—  Walker Percy

Source: Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

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Southern philosophical novelist 1916–1990

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