From Nikkibar at aol.com Tue Apr 1 16:41:19 2003 From: Nikkibar at aol.com (Nikkibar at aol.com) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 16:41:19 EST Subject: [percy-l] Re: A handsome new book Message-ID: <1ce.6802633.2bbb617f@aol.com> Dear List, Farrar Strauss and Giroux has just published The Life You save May be Your Own, by Paul Elie. It is truly a handsome volume and well worth the price to anyone interested in the Percy Canon. The book compares and delves into the work of Thomas Merton, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Day and Walker with the tenderest of loving care. Paul is one of the younger editors at FS&G and a delightful fellow. I met him last year and we toured the Percy haunts about Covington including the cemetery at the Abbey where Walker is buried. I think that this book will be requisite to anyone's work who is doing scholarship on Walker's oeuvre along with the Tolson and Samway bios and the Coversations. Nikki Nikki > > > > > -- > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wriddick at usa.net Tue Apr 22 02:51:49 2003 From: wriddick at usa.net (Wade Riddick) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 01:51:49 -0500 Subject: [percy-l] synesthesia Message-ID: There's an article on synesthesia in Scientific American which might be of interest to the list. From marcus at loyno.edu Tue Apr 22 12:39:26 2003 From: marcus at loyno.edu (marcus at loyno.edu) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 11:39:26 -0500 Subject: [percy-l] Senator Bob Kerrey & The Moviegoer Message-ID: <3ea5703e.7ce00c.0@loyno.edu> Brent Kendall has an article in the Washington Monthly (which I found on Alternet.com) about the books that Presidential candidates read (or claim to read). He has these paragraphs about Senator Bob Kerrey--who (like Binx) may have come to himself and decided to begin a search in one of our Asian wars. Recall the recent disclosures by Kerrey about his involvement as a Navy Seal in the massacres of Vietnamese civilians: "Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey took the opposite approach, tackling the book question headfirst when he sought the 1992 Democratic nomination. Kerrey readily offered that his favorite book was Walker Percy's "The Moviegoer," a novel that depicted the aimless existence of a soldier-turned-stockbroker named Binx Bolling. His answer may have revealed too much. The New York Times' Maureen Dowd pounced, claiming Kerrey's confession would worry voters, given that Percy's work was an "anthem of alienation" about a war veteran "out of touch with the rest of America." As The New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert later put it, with 20/20 hindsight, "Here was a man proposing himself as the next leader of the free world while apparently identifying with a character who, to all outward appearances, seems to have completely lost his sense of direction." Ouch. "Kerrey holds no grudge against the press for engaging in such psychoanalysis. In fact, he says, there was some truth to it. His advice to the current candidates? Be authentic, but be prepared. "If you don't want to think about your answer ahead of time ... don't run for president. Because it's part of what you have to do," Kerrey told me. "No candidate is going to be successful by being themselves." "But at least he tried." Marcus Smith New Orleans From karey at charter.net Wed Apr 30 19:45:44 2003 From: karey at charter.net (Karey L. Perkins) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 19:45:44 -0400 Subject: [percy-l] Fw: How Music REALLY Works - comparing language and music Message-ID: <002301c30f72$9e407a60$0301000a@AFAC955012> Thought you all might be interested in this -- I'm reading Susanne Langer now, who as you know influenced Percy's language theory greatly, and she talks about music (as well as art and ritual) as symbolic language. The brief discussion at the e-link below links music and language together, and refers to the FOXP2 gene as well...the "sidebar" box recommends further reading. Karey ----------------------------------- Subject: How Music REALLY Works - comparing language and music Hi Karey, Here is the link to the paper on understanding music that compares our human brain's biological processing of language with music. "How Music REALLY Works" Sections 1.1 The Biological "Sense" of Language and "Sense" of Music; and 1.2 Words + Music . . . 1 + 1 = 3. http://www.completechords.com/Pages_Sidebranch_Free_Features/How_Music_Reall y_Works/How_Music_REALLY_Works_1a.htm#1.1 If the link gets mangled in email, just go to http://www.completechords.com and click the link _How_Music_Really_Works_ in the left column. Enjoy, Jeff __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: