She left me her journals and memories and pictures, and in 1980 I was not so much hung up as I was a commemorator and an appreciator. |
The task of the appreciator, correspondingly, is to receive the artist's message in the same terms in which it was conceived. |
To the appreciator the arts of form carry a twofold significance. |
It was my work to hunt them out and bring them to him as to one who was an appreciator. |
Walter is an appreciator and a describer, not an advocate and a decrier. |
He wants Him to exist for the same reasons we all do: to be our rescuer and appreciator, to act as a confidant in our moments of crisis and to give us reassurance that, over the horizon of our deaths, we will survive. |