Conversing with Professor Barzun

artistic forms that are utterly unlike,nand perhaps at first repellent to thenbeholder, shatters the provincial assumptionsnwhich nearly all of us inherit---namely,nthat our ways ofnspeaking, singing, and feeling are the .nonly really human ways, all othersnbeing outlandish and probably meaningless.nIn light of such vital connections,nevery teacher . . .