In a discussion following a tour of William Faulkner’s home, I asked students in my creative writing course how the great writer felt about mankind’s capacity for endurance.
“He summed it up in one line from his Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech,” a student replied. ‘I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail.’”
Another great thinker, my boyhood best friend and mentor Jaybird defined man’s capacity for endurance by living it, day by day.