Subject: Re: Moviegoer and despair
From: Bryon McLaughlin (bmclaughlin@NAZARENE.ORG)
Date: Mon Nov 29 1999 - 09:51:43 EST
Could someone further explain what is meant by angelism? Is this a term
Percy invented or one that he elaborated on and explored? Does Percy bring
nuances to this term that others don't talk about? Could just be me, but I
haven't really encountered the term much, if at all, outside Percy's
writings.
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From: Walker Percy Literary and Philosophic Topics
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Subject: Re: Moviegoer and despair
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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