Re: Moviegoer and despair


Subject: Re: Moviegoer and despair
From: Marshall Smith (Cocasteady@AOL.COM)
Date: Sun Nov 28 1999 - 01:02:24 EST


Here's something I posted some time ago re the subject of Sutter. I think
his importance is overlooked in Percy talk and on this list.

I'm intrigued by the idea of Sutter Vaught as a depraved,
secular, brilliant, cynical version of Abraham. With his obsessive
journaling about sex and angelism, Sutter seems to have entered the religious
stage of the Kierkegaardian progression, albeit in an upside down fashion.
Perhaps it's Percy's wry comment on the age - a brilliant seeker finding
nothing in the modern world worth seeking besides sex and re-entry into the
human condition from his Descartes-skewed separation. Of course it's more
complicated than that, as Percy would always caution.



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