Re: Better than Monday morning?

From: charles_almond_pearson (charles_almond_pearson@MSN.COM)
Date: Tue Sep 11 2001 - 18:11:08 EDT


Exception: if you're a mother shooing flies away from your dying
baby in the streets someplace in Iraq, where on average 5000
people have been dying from UN sanctions since the end of the
Gulf War, according to a series that ran in the Hartford Courant
last October.

Don't mean to belittle your observation, Mark, but I felt the US
supported UN atrocity needs at least as much mention as today's.

Al Pearson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tarallo, Mark" <Mark.Tarallo@BRIDGE.COM>
To: <PERCY-L@listserv.lsu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 5:49 PM
Subject: Better than Monday morning?

> Hello All,
>
> I certainly do not want to trivialize today's tragedy and
deaths, and I
> sincerely hope that none of you
> have loved ones that were hurt, but I must say that, as a
journalist based
> in Washington who
> had a busy day "working" the story (a disgusting phrase, I
know), I must
> confide that
> running through my head throughout the workday was the Percy
concept,
> War is better tham Monday morning.
>
> This came to mind especially in trying to self-assess the
spirit in which I
> discussed today's events
> with concerned friends and family members.
>
> It makes one wonder.
>
> --Mark
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Alan Beck [SMTP:dabeck@IUPUI.EDU]
> > Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 11:17 PM
> > To: PERCY-L@listserv.lsu.edu
> > Subject: Re: Novelists now, in the spirit of Percy
> >
> > John,
> > I agree that DeLillo fits somewhere in the spectrum. Speaking
of DD,
> > has anyone had a chance to read the article in this month's
Atlantic?
> > There is an article that, for the most part, is arguing that
the
> > contemporary authors who are so revered by critics and
academics, are
> > wearing the emperor's new clothes. He focuses on DeLillo,
Cormac McCarthy,
> > and Paul Auster. I haven't had time to read the entire
article but did
> > glance over it. I'll have to admit that, for me, blasting
away at DeLillo,
> > one of my favorite living writers, makes me regard him with
suspicion.
> > Though he does have a point about the stilted dialogue in the
works of
> > these writers, a sin that no one can accuse Percy of. Yet, in
DeLillo, I
> > always viewed the "flat" dialogue as part of the theme and
overall effect
> > of his works.
> >
> > Regardless, I look forward to reading the article (partly due
to a
> > co-worker who bought the argument and challenged me to
respond).
> >
> > David Beck
> >
> > "The only true joy on earth is to escape from the
> > prison of our false self, and enter by love into union
> > with the Life Who dwells and sings within the essence of
> > every creature and in the core of our own souls."
> >
> > -Thomas Merton
>



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