Re: Final posting for a long while and the schaddenfreud paradox

From: Benningfield, James (JBENNI01@BELLARMINE.EDU)
Date: Tue Sep 18 2001 - 17:51:28 EDT


RE: Final posting for a long while and the schaddenfreud paradox

Hello - I got on this distrubution list to research a paper on Walker Percy.  I have completed the project and would like to be removed from the distribution list.  Can anyone help?

Thanks to everyone for all the help and comments.

Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: Marcus Smith [mailto:marcus@loyno.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 4:42 PM
To: PERCY-L@listserv.lsu.edu
Subject: Re: Final posting for a long while and the schaddenfreud
paradox


I presume your "W" = Shrub and not Walker?

Marcus

>I don't know that Walker coined the term himself; that's probably mine, but

>the idea was definitely his: that we tend to feel good at times when things

>are bad, e.g. when a hurricane is on the way. And in conversation,
>schaddenfreud was one of his favorite saxonisms.
>
>Apropos of your remark about things being over your head, I would venture to

>suggest that one reason why the s. p. doesn't seem to be operative at the
>moment is because it's all over everyone's head, including W. The fact that

>it is makes me all the more schadden and so much les freud...
>
>Nikki
>



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