Shawn,

Thank you!  This must have been what I was misremembering.

> 
> Lee,
> 
> A similar quote appears in a "The Theater Critic and His Double" by John 
> Simon in the _Hudson 
> Review_:
> 
> "Thus he sees, apparently, two Edmund Wilsons where there is only one 
> admittedly large one, 
> two cultures where one wonders whether there is even one, and a whole wit in 
> George Steiner."
> 
> which could be
> 
> "Thus he sees . . . two cultures where one wonders whether there is even one 
> . . . ."
> 
> http://www.jstor.org/stable/3848465
> 
> Other than that I didn't find anything on Google.
> 
> Yet, I'm curious why the "can discern" version is worth 10+ years of 
> searching.

Because I remember it so clearly (and, apparently, so
falsely).  It's always good to find out that one has
been very wrong for very long, isn't it?  (Though I
would have prefered to find out that I had been right,
I guess.)

Cheers,

Lee

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