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

Patrick Lynch padraig at well.com
Wed Aug 31 21:30:33 EDT 2005


Oh Nikki and all our New Orleanians (All Those at Loyola NO!):
Prayers and hopes for quick recovery are constantly going your way.  
Marcus, you too are in our prayers. It transcends thought to know  
what you are going through, but I hope that you are in a comfortable  
way.
Sincere concern,
patrick

On Aug 31, 2005, at 5:11 AM, Dave Duty 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
>>
>> * * *
>> 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
>> Jim & Nancy Forest web site: http://incommunion.org/forest-flier/
>> photo web site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimforest/sets/
>> * * *
>>
>> --
>> An archive of all list discussion is available at http:// 
>> lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/percy-l/
>>
>> Visit the Walker Percy Project at http://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy
> --
> An archive of all list discussion is available at http:// 
> lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/percy-l/
>
> Visit the Walker Percy Project at http://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy
>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/percy-l/attachments/20050831/5a88be31/attachment.html>


More information about the Percy-L mailing list