[percy-l] thanks and hello (Fwd for Larry Rhu)

Henry P. Mills wpercy2 at ibiblio.org
Sun Jul 31 11:58:07 EDT 2005


 From: "Lawrence Rhu" <RhuL at gwm.sc.edu
 Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 10:49:10 -0400
 To: <percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org
 Subject: Re:  thanks and hello
 
 Thank you, Henry, for the welcome, and hello all.
 
 What a delight to open my email and find these various messages about
 Percy.  With the necessary chores of my school year bearing down on me
 at the moment, I am a bit preoccupied with getting things done in that
 regard that I have been putting off or simply unable to attend to, but I
 have nonetheles been rereading Lancelot and The Thanatos Syndrome with
 gratitiude and pleasure.  The 6/23 Connection show about The Moviegoer
 was also interesting to hear.  I was struck once again how the intimacy
 that Percy achieves with his readers can make us confuse his characters
 (and in this case his narrator) with the author himself.  Good to know
 about Peter Lawler.  I read Carl Elliott's Better than Well this spring
 and both enjoyed and admired it.  To my mind, there is a lot of smart
 stuff about Percy in it.
 
 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
 

  ------ 
 wpercy2 at ibiblio.org 7/30/2005 6:46:17 PM  wrote:
 
Dear Percy-L,
 
 I am forwarding a message that had trouble getting through.  Welcome to
 the list, Larry.  We are glad to have you onboard.
 
 Regards,
 Henry
 
 
 ------ Forwarded Message
 
> From: "Lawrence Rhu" <RhuL at gwm.sc.edu>
> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 11:16:19 -0400
> To: <percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: By way of introduction
> 
> I have just signed up for the Percy list and been encouraged to
> introduce myself.  Briefly, I read Walker Percy's early novels in the
> 60s when I was in college, and they meant an enormous amount to me.  I
> continued reading his books as they came out; and, as a school teacher
> and then a college professor, I have found occasional opportunites to
> teach Percy.  Recently, I completed a book project on the American
> philosopher Stanley Cavell, who, I think, shares a noteworthy spiritual
> kinship with Percy.  For that reason, Percy (and The Moviegoer in
> particular) became significant terms of comparison in writing that book.
> That writing also made me eager to find further opportunities to think,
> talk, teach, and write about Walker Percy.  This list looks as though it
> may be helpful in that search.
> 
> Larry Rhu
> 
> 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


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