August 2006 Page 12

> A SOURCE OF ART?
John UPDIKE wrote something in his own words, amidst an article filled with the last words, as it were, of the famous... including Beckett, Greene, James, Hawthorne, Miranda, Said, Melville, Adorno, Murdoch, Beethoven, Shakespeare and Joyce which struck me. [New Yorker, August 7th & 14th, 2006 issue, page 71]:

He wrote:
"Art comes, it may be, from the death-denying portion of the psyche, deeper than reason's reach."