[percy-l] Would Kierkegaard Blog? Would Percy?

Gray, Rich RGray at montreat.edu
Thu Dec 8 12:36:59 EST 2005


Percy responded quickly - maybe the same day - to my letter to him in
the late 1980s.  His handwriting was challenging to read.  Perhaps he
was too ill to write extensively or type.  His letter was brief - about
200 words.  His ideas were close to his interviews.  A Percy reader once
told me Percy was over-interviewed, with two books of interviews having
been published.  That may have cut into his reflecting much in letters.

 

Rich Gray

Montreat, North Carolina 

 

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From: Robert Eckert [mailto:rgeckert at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 12:17 PM
To: Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion
Subject: Re: [percy-l] Would Kierkegaard Blog? Would Percy?

 

I wonder what exactly "other things" means here. 

 

I trust Lawrwnce realizes that Percy corresponded with friends, readers,
and ect... precisely to see what they thought of his wonderful essays
and novels. 

 


Lawrence Rhu <rhul at gwm.sc.edu> wrote:

	I wonder exactly what "extensive correspondence" means here. I
trust that it means he wrote lots of people and was indeed exceptionally
responisve to those who wrote him, whether they were friends or readers
who had no previous acquaintance with him. Percy was gracious and prompt
to respond in this regard so far as I can tell. But as a writer of
letters, Percy strikes me as rather preoccupied with other things -- his
wonderful novels and essays. The correspondence with Shelby Foote
certainly demonstrates this imbalance, though maybe his published
correspondence about Peirce with K. Kendler is different. I don't know
and must look to see about that. Does anbody know of any other
correspondence of Percy that is really ample and committed to
letter-writing itself as a resource for sustained reflection and
dialogue?
	
	Larry 
	
	Lawrence F. Rhu
	Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
	University of South Carolina
	Columbia, SC 29208
	Tel: 803 777 0144
	Fax: 803 777 9064
	Email: rhul at sc.edu
	
	>>> rgeckert at yahoo.com 12/08/05 11:01 AM >>>
	Walker Percy certainly carried on an extensive correspondence
and K wrote like mad--even to himself--K. used to carry on debates in
his personal journals with the various psuedonyms he had created.
	
	It would be interesting to know just how many people wrote to
Percy and got (seemingly same day) responses. Must be thousands.
	
	Robert Eckert
	Rochester, NY
	
	
	
	
	
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