I guess the main thing that Percy does for me is to put into words the uneasy feelings I think all of us have that the world is going crazy all around us ("the center did not hold") and lets us know that we have a right to feel depressed and anxious about it all.
Percy has also influenced me spiritually. The last 20 years of my life have been spent in an essentially agnostic/atheist mode. Feeling rather spiritually poor and understanding Percy's thesis that religion may be the only true means of reentry to the world, I have been participating in membership classes at the local Roman Catholic church the last two months. For better or worse, I would never have turned down this path if I had not discovered Percy's works.
What is your level of interest in Walker Percy?:
Besotted fan
What do like the most about the Walker Percy Project?:
It exists!