[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>
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> It was Percy quoting O'Connor.
>
> 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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