[percy-l] "What's so great about this Percy guy, anyway?"

Dye, Steve sldye at bluegrass.org
Wed Aug 31 10:04:22 EDT 2005


My thoughts exactly...the New Orleans that many of have known and loved
for years (and that was so beautifully written about by Percy) is gone
forever...
 
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[mailto:percy-l-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Stuart Chapman
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Been thinking about you, Percy, and everybody else New Orleans-related
over these last few days, and I hope that you are ok. 
 
It's just awful. 
 
Stuart

Dave Duty <daveduty at austin.rr.com> wrote:
Is no one else on the list concerned about Nikki and the other New
Orleans area residents?

Nikki -- if your out there -- let us know if you and your loved ones are
ok -- God Bless -- Dave

JHForest at cs.com wrote:


>> What would you say to a young person who asks, "What so great about
this
Percy guy, anyway?" <<

What keeps Walker Percy in print fifteen years after his death is the
sheer delight of reading his books.

A key word with Percy was "search." It seems to me all of his fiction
and non-fiction have to do with that topic. As he said:

"If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, 
I'd take the search." 

It's a subject of the search has been much on my mind lately if for no 
other reason than I'm at work on a book about pilgrimage (understood 
not only as making journeys to distant shrines but an attitude about 
being that has little to do with travel). One way of defining a pilgrim 
is a person on a search.

Jim Forest

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Jim & Nancy Forest
Kanisstraat 5 / 1811 GJ Alkmaar / The Netherlands
Jim's e-mail: jhforest at cs.com (alternative address: jhforest at gmail.com)
Nancy's e-mail: forestflier at cs.com (alternative address:
forestflier at gmail.com)
Orthodox Peace Fellowship web site: http://www.incommunion.org
<http://www.incommunion.org/> 
Jim & Nancy Forest web site: http://incommunion.org/forest-flier/
photo web site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimforest/sets/
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