Wilfrid Sheed Quotes on Identity
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Carmichael was, like many Americans, a divided soul, part nomad and part homebody, who seemed a little bit at home everywhere, but was probably more so someplace else, if he could just find it.
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What he feared most was the blind spot between us and the future, the space between identities where we could get lost forever.
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I myself have not met a self-confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit, like coming from the middle class or the Middle West, those two gloomy seedbeds of talent), yet hardly a day passes that I don't read another attack on the 'typical liberal' - as it might be announcing a pest of dinosaurs or a plague of unicorns.
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In modern American style, his job, not his past, defined him.
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His interviewing self is, or was, an extra person, like the Holy Ghost, generated by self-contemplation.