[percy-l] weatherbee

Gray, Rich RGray at montreat.edu
Sat Apr 15 22:43:42 EDT 2006


Is Kev Kevin still a priest, or has he left the priesthood in Love in the Ruins?
 
Another priest is Fr. Placide in Thanatos Syndrome.  He performs the routine tasks of a suburban pastor.  He calls Tom More to attend to Fr. Reynaldo Smith, isolated in the firetower.  Does Placide represent any themes, or is he simply part of the context?
 
Rich

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: RHONDA MCDONNELL [mailto:rhonda_mcdonnell at msn.com] 
	Sent: Sat 4/15/2006 12:09 AM 
	
	

	This might be stating the obvious (or, who knows, it might be way off base),
	but after seeing the Kinsey biopic, I couldn't help but think that Fr. Kev
	Kevin was a send up of Kinsey, who apparently came from a fundamentalist
	background and ended up at some sort of vagina console of his own.
	
	--Rhonda
	The best lack all convictions, while the worst
	Are full of passionate intensity. -- WB Yeats
	
	
	>From: JHForest at cs.com
	>Reply-To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion"
	><percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org>
	>To: percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org
	>Subject: Re: [percy-l] weatherbee
	>Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 04:16:33 EDT
	>
	>In a message dated 4/11/2006 8:10:58 PM Romance Daylight Time,
	>Bernard.Collins at jhuapl.edu writes:
	> > Has anyone mentioned the "Dutch schismatic" Fr. Kev Kevin in LITR? He
	> > "takes clinical notes, operates the vaginal console," and sits at the
	>computer,
	> > "reading a book, Christianity Without God."
	> >
	>
	>Fr Kev represents a form of post-Christianity in which social adaptation
	>has
	>the upper hand. Fr Kev has no obvious interest in the Gospel or Jesus
	>Christ
	>and has lost all sense of connection with his (former) Church.
	>
	>Jim
	>* * *
	>Jim and Nancy Forest
	

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