[percy-l] Lancelot the Jihadist

RHONDA MCDONNELL rhonda_mcdonnell at msn.com
Fri Jan 12 12:17:43 EST 2007


Nikki--

Thank you for your insightful comments. You often have a way of bringing 
clarity to a discussion.

--Rhonda

"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance"

                                    e.e. cummings


>From: Nikkibar at aol.com
>Reply-To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" 
><percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org>
>To: percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org
>CC: jamdi at bellsouth.net, marcus at loyno.edu
>Subject: Re: [percy-l] Lancelot the Jihadist
>Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:22:56 EST
>
>I would dissent from mr. Larson's view that Walker is speaking through
>Lancelot, a mistake that even learned critics have been making for years. 
>this
>awlays puzzled Walker after the publication of the book with the same 
>puzzzlement
>Socrtes must have felt as they passed him the hemlock.
>
>"Don't folks know irony when they see it?" opined WP. I would remeark that
>the reasson for the mistake is that there is something so appealing in the 
>Lance
>character that put s the reader on his side despite his nihilism in the
>latter passages of the book.
>
>Walker was by my personal observation of him, much taken with the Vatican 
>II
>changes at a time when lots of RCs in Covington were not. I  mean to check
>these observations with others and supplement this hereafter.
>
>Nikki Barranger


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