[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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