[percy-l] "...to the gas chamber..."

Allen Pridgen apridgen at pinehurst.net
Thu Mar 6 09:30:37 EST 2003


See the last pages of O'Connor's Introduction to A Memoir of Mary Ann on 
"tenderness" and the "fumers of the gas chamber." This essay (the final 
one in Mystery and Manners) is a truly profound statement about human 
suffering and charity.
I invite you to look at my commentary on this matter in  my book, Walker 
Percy's Sacramental Landscapes (Susquehanna UP, 2000).

Allen Pridgen


Karey L. Perkins wrote:

> When, what context or work, did O'Connor use it?
>  
> KP
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> From: Robert_Pauley at oxy.com <mailto:Robert_Pauley at oxy.com>
> To: percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org <mailto:percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org>
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> It was Percy quoting O'Connor.
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> R. Pauley
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>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: Karey L. Perkins [mailto:karey at charter.net]
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>     Subject: [percy-l] "...to the gas chamber..."
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>     I wasn't sure if it was Percy who had originally said this, or
>     Percy quoting Flannery O'Connor or someone else.  I recently came
>     across it in "Signposts in a Strange Land" in the epilogue "An
>     Interview with Zoltan Abadi-Nagy" -- last line (p. 396, Picador). 
>      
>     Am I correct in assuming this is a "Percy original" and this is
>     the first time the phrase had been said?  Or is he referring to
>     another use of the phrase?
>      
>     By the way, I just finished Tolson's biography of Percy
>     ("Pilgrim in the Ruins") and I thought it was fantastic. 
>      
>     Karey
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