Re: Moviegoer and despair


Subject: Re: Moviegoer and despair
From: Jim Woods (TrlBlzrOne@AOL.COM)
Date: Tue Nov 23 1999 - 07:29:46 EST


In a message dated 11/18/99 3:51:37 AM !!!First Boot!!!,
rhonda_mcdonnell@HOTMAIL.COM writes:

> In an interview, Percy said something to the effect
> that he agrees with S.K. regarding the aesthetic and the ethical stages,
but
> when it comes to the Religious stage, Kierkegaard got it all wrong. What
> follows then is, if I remember rightly, Percy's assertion that the
Religious
> stage must, in part, be communal

Rhonda,

I think your point is right on as is your reference to Binx, Resurrection,
children and community at the end of Moviegoer. I think Percy's own
awakening as an artist owed a lot to his conversion. Without his conversion
I doubt that he would have written or, at least, not have written as he did.

Jim



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