Re: Percy's works and real life
Hal L. McDonald (HMCDONALD@MHC.EDU)
Tue, 1 Apr 1997 09:43:42 -0600
For me, one of the most outrageously funny scenes in Percy's work
is the showdown between Tom More and Buddy Brown in the Pit (Love in
the Ruins). The treatment of Mr. Ives in that scene is
choice, particularly in the review of all of his anti-social behavior
("Did on the occasion of the Ohio Day breakfast during the period of
well-wishing and when the microphone was passed to him utter gross
insults and obscenities to Ohioans, among the mildest of which was
the expression, repeated many times: Piss on all Ohioans!
"Did in fact urinate on Ohio in the Garden of the Fifty States.")
Now this episode may not appeal to Percy fans in the buckeye
state, but I fall out of my chair every time I read it.
Hal McDonald