From mark.maier at gmail.com Fri Jun 15 16:02:14 2007 From: mark.maier at gmail.com (Mark Maier) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:02:14 -0400 Subject: [percy-l] Walker Percy on Youtube Message-ID: <10fb7f120706151302x10929afcm72a0b49f6544fe45@mail.gmail.com> Many of you might have already seen this, but.... http://youtube.com/watch?v=T6jaJy3gL2I Mark Hillsdale Community Library 11 East Bacon Street Hillsdale, MI 49242 Phone: 517.437.6472 Fax: 517.437.6477 mmaier at hillsdale-library.org From daveduty at austin.rr.com Sat Jun 16 05:07:31 2007 From: daveduty at austin.rr.com (Dave Duty) Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:07:31 -0600 Subject: [percy-l] Walker Percy on Youtube In-Reply-To: <10fb7f120706151302x10929afcm72a0b49f6544fe45@mail.gmail.com> References: <10fb7f120706151302x10929afcm72a0b49f6544fe45@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4673A853.1020801@austin.rr.com> Mark - not sure where you found this -- or who posted it to YoubeTube - but what a summer surprise -- thanks to all you had apart in the finding and the posting -- all best regards -- Dave Duty Mark Maier wrote: >Many of you might have already seen this, but.... > >http://youtube.com/watch?v=T6jaJy3gL2I > >Mark > >Hillsdale Community Library >11 East Bacon Street >Hillsdale, MI 49242 >Phone: 517.437.6472 Fax: 517.437.6477 >mmaier at hillsdale-library.org >-- >An archive of all list discussion is available at http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/percy-l/ > >Visit the Walker Percy Project at http://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy > > > > From JHForest at cs.com Sat Jun 16 16:33:21 2007 From: JHForest at cs.com (JHForest at cs.com) Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 16:33:21 EDT Subject: [percy-l] Walker Percy on Youtube Message-ID: >> Mark - not sure where you found this -- or who posted it to YoubeTube - but what a summer surprise -- thanks to all you had apart in the finding and the posting -- all best regards << Let me also express gratituide for your posting this link, Mark. I wonder if there are other films or recordings of Walker Percy? Jim Forest * * * Jim and Nancy Forest Kanisstraat 5 / 1811 GJ Alkmaar / The Netherlands e-mail: jhforest at gmail.com Jim and Nancy Forest web site: www.incommunion.org/forest-flier/ Forest-Flier Editorial Services: www.incommunion.org/forest-flier/ffes/ Photo web site: www.flickr.com/photos/jimforest/sets/ Orthodox Peace Fellowship web site: www.incommunion.org * * * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Nikkibar at aol.com Tue Jun 19 13:12:01 2007 From: Nikkibar at aol.com (Nikkibar at aol.com) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:12:01 EDT Subject: [percy-l] Walker Percy on Youtube Message-ID: In a message dated 6/16/2007 8:05:28 AM Central Daylight Time, daveduty at austin.rr.com writes: >http://youtube.com/watch?v=T6jaJy3gL2I > Dear Dave, I tried loading the url you sent but came up with Alibris and other gobblede gook instead. Nikki ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Nikkibar at aol.com Tue Jun 19 13:27:33 2007 From: Nikkibar at aol.com (Nikkibar at aol.com) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:27:33 EDT Subject: [percy-l] Walker Percy on Youtube Message-ID: In a message dated 6/15/2007 3:02:20 PM Central Daylight Time, mark.maier at gmail.com writes: http://youtube.com/watch?v=T6jaJy3gL2I I finally got the url but no sound. Help? Nikki ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jhforest at gmail.com Tue Jun 19 13:31:09 2007 From: jhforest at gmail.com (Jim Forest) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:31:09 +0200 Subject: [percy-l] Walker Percy on Youtube In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <53c59b0c0706191031o3c0e1c37j317c4c9e0854b339@mail.gmail.com> Odd! Just using the link in your e-mail takes me straight to the YouTube film. Try again. Jim Forest On 6/19/07, Nikkibar at aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 6/16/2007 8:05:28 AM Central Daylight Time, > daveduty at austin.rr.com writes: > > >http://youtube.com/watch?v=T6jaJy3gL2I > > > > *Dear Dave,* > ** > *I tried loading the url you sent but came up with Alibris and other > gobblede gook instead.* > ** > *Nikki* > > > > ------------------------------ > See what's free at AOL.com . > > > -- > An archive of all list discussion is available at > http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/percy-l/ > > Visit the Walker Percy Project at http://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy > > -- Jim & Nancy Forest Kanisstraat 5 1811 GJ Alkmaar The Netherlands Jim: jhforest at gmail.com Nancy: forestflier at gmail.com phone: (072) 515-4180 (int'l: 00-31-72-515-4180) personal web: www.incommunion.org/forest-flier/ Forest-Flier Editorial Services: www.incommunion.org/forest-flier/ffes/ OPF web: www.incommunion.org photos: www.flickr.com/photos/jimforest/sets/ * * * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jopomojo at gmail.com Tue Jun 19 13:38:41 2007 From: jopomojo at gmail.com (Jonathan Potter) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:38:41 -0700 Subject: [percy-l] Walker Percy on Youtube In-Reply-To: <53c59b0c0706191031o3c0e1c37j317c4c9e0854b339@mail.gmail.com> References: <53c59b0c0706191031o3c0e1c37j317c4c9e0854b339@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1329b480706191038t216d8c82hfa412dbf03f6b4b@mail.gmail.com> There's more information about this video, along with a link to a transcript, available at Korrektiv: http://www.korrektiv.org/2007/06/from-youtube-walker-percy-archives.html. --Rufus McCain Spokane WA On 6/19/07, Jim Forest wrote: > > Odd! Just using the link in your e-mail takes me straight to the YouTube > film. Try again. > > Jim Forest > > On 6/19/07, Nikkibar at aol.com wrote: > > > In a message dated 6/16/2007 8:05:28 AM Central Daylight Time, > > daveduty at austin.rr.com writes: > > > > > http://youtube.com/watch?v=T6jaJy3gL2I > > > > > > > *Dear Dave,* > > ** > > *I tried loading the url you sent but came up with Alibris and other > > gobblede gook instead.* > > ** > > *Nikki* > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > See what's free at AOL.com. > > > > > > -- > > An archive of all list discussion is available at http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/percy-l/ > > > > > > Visit the Walker Percy Project at http://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy > > > > > > > -- > Jim & Nancy Forest > Kanisstraat 5 > 1811 GJ Alkmaar > The Netherlands > Jim: jhforest at gmail.com > Nancy: forestflier at gmail.com > phone: (072) 515-4180 (int'l: 00-31-72-515-4180) > personal web: www.incommunion.org/forest-flier/ > Forest-Flier Editorial Services: www.incommunion.org/forest-flier/ffes/ > OPF web: www.incommunion.org > photos: www.flickr.com/photos/jimforest/sets/ > * * * > -- > An archive of all list discussion is available at > http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/percy-l/ > > Visit the Walker Percy Project at http://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dabeck at iupui.edu Tue Jun 19 20:01:43 2007 From: dabeck at iupui.edu (Beck, David A) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:01:43 -0400 Subject: [percy-l] non-percy Message-ID: <20070619200143.gn6jgryu9coks88c@webmail.iu.edu> Folks, I know this email has nothing to do with Percy, but an email from Rhonda made me wish that we could discuss the books we are reading (ok, maybe I can couch this in terms like "Percy would've loved this book," etc.). But I've read two really powerful books this summer (during the first summer session in which I didn't teach): Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" and Phillip Roth's "Everyman." Currently, I am half-way through Delillo's latest novel, a brilliant one btw, on 9/11: "Falling Man." If this discussion breaks any Percylist rules, maybe we could take it off the list. But these books are really important and deserve a good discussion. Also, for those who teach and/or want to understand this generation, I recommend, "Generaton Me: Why Today's Young Americans are more Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable than Ever" by Jean Twenge. If you teach and have wondered why a student whines when getting an A- or B+, this book provides some answers. Anyway, hope I didn't break any percean list rules, but I'd like to breathe some life in this list. I'd like to see a discussion of books, ideas, etc. return, even if they aren't by Percy. But I think that we would bring a percean reading to these works and could discuss them in that way. What do you think? -David From RGray at montreat.edu Wed Jun 20 08:12:41 2007 From: RGray at montreat.edu (Gray, Rich) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:12:41 -0400 Subject: [percy-l] non-percy References: <20070619200143.gn6jgryu9coks88c@webmail.iu.edu> Message-ID: <3FE19AF0B946EE4D8FAB89F9F1159F4C0B9020@e3kmail.montreat.edu> I read The Road last month. Fine story, much in the flavor of Percy's essay "Notes for a Novel about the End of the World." Does anyone else want to comment on this novel? Rich Gray -----Original Message----- From: percy-l-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org on behalf of Beck, David A Sent: Tue 6/19/2007 8:01 PM To: Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion Subject: [percy-l] non-percy Folks, I know this email has nothing to do with Percy, but an email from Rhonda made me wish that we could discuss the books we are reading (ok, maybe I can couch this in terms like "Percy would've loved this book," etc.). But I've read two really powerful books this summer (during the first summer session in which I didn't teach): Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" and Phillip Roth's "Everyman." Currently, I am half-way through Delillo's latest novel, a brilliant one btw, on 9/11: "Falling Man." If this discussion breaks any Percylist rules, maybe we could take it off the list. But these books are really important and deserve a good discussion. Also, for those who teach and/or want to understand this generation, I recommend, "Generaton Me: Why Today's Young Americans are more Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable than Ever" by Jean Twenge. If you teach and have wondered why a student whines when getting an A- or B+, this book provides some answers. Anyway, hope I didn't break any percean list rules, but I'd like to breathe some life in this list. I'd like to see a discussion of books, ideas, etc. return, even if they aren't by Percy. But I think that we would bring a percean reading to these works and could discuss them in that way. What do you think? -David -- An archive of all list discussion is available at http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/percy-l/ Visit the Walker Percy Project at http://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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At once cryptic and certain, McCarthy confirms the presence of God and goodness in the face of a world gone mad. --Rhonda "You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing." Walker Percy > Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:12:41 -0400> From: RGray at montreat.edu> To: percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org> Subject: RE: [percy-l] non-percy> _________________________________________________________________ Live Earth is coming.? Learn more about the hottest summer event - only on MSN. http://liveearth.msn.com?source=msntaglineliveearthwlm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dabeck at iupui.edu Wed Jun 20 23:14:57 2007 From: dabeck at iupui.edu (Beck, David A) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:14:57 -0400 Subject: [percy-l] non-percy In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20070620231457.brug3t29lw0k4c8o@webmail.iu.edu> I agree with Rhonda's interpretation. If you couple this novel with McCarthy's previous book, "No Country for Old Men," you see a pretty bleak future for America. In his previous book, he let's a mass murderer get off, concluding with a retiring sheriff, basically throwing up his hands and saying we created this "cancer". It is tearing up our social structure, but it is here and we can't defeat it. When we read "The Road", we see a decimated America, but love holds two people (a father and son) together. The father says (thinks) several times, only one thing keeps him traveling down "the road", and that is his love for his son. It's a great book, one that captures intersubjectivity, in the bleakest of times. -David Quoting RHONDA MCDONNELL : > I, too, couldn't help but think of Percy when reading The Road. > Somewhere, perhaps in the essay Rich mentions, he pictures the end of > things, and speaks of the solitude of two people together, and the > profound and triadic bond that will then exist between them. I found > the language used between the man and boy to have that quality, as > though even the most mundane words had been stripped free of their > calcification and been turned into something new. > > The ending of the novel also seemed Percyan to me--the redemption and > hope were so much like the endings of Moviegoer, LITR, and Second > Coming. At once cryptic and certain, McCarthy confirms the presence > of God and goodness in the face of a world gone mad. > --Rhonda "You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, > because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man > has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing." > Walker Percy > >> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:12:41 -0400> From: RGray at montreat.edu> To: >> percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org> Subject: RE: [percy-l] non-percy> > _________________________________________________________________ > Live Earth is coming. Learn more about the hottest summer event - > only on MSN. > http://liveearth.msn.com?source=msntaglineliveearthwlm From rhonda_mcdonnell at msn.com Fri Jun 22 23:26:52 2007 From: rhonda_mcdonnell at msn.com (RHONDA MCDONNELL) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:26:52 -0600 Subject: [percy-l] Sounds a lot like Percy Message-ID: I was catching up on a back issue of The Sun, and was struck by the Percyan thinking in Diane Covington's interview of John O'Donohue. O'Donohue's first response is below: There is a fierce hunger for spirit at the heart of an American culture that has lost all belief in the old language about God. That language no longer resonates for most Americans, nor leads them to wells of nourishment. Ironically,in other areas of American culture, there is a fundamentalist obsession with God. But inevitably this God tends to be a monolith and an emperor of the blandest singularity. Attentionto the living God, who incorporates the beauty of the senses and spirit, and is the deepest source of the imagination and the highest calling of intellect, seems very scarce. New Age spirituality is rising up to try to fill the gap. I do not wish to criticize any system that can nourish people?s spirits, but I find that a lot of New Age writing cherry-picks the attractive bits from the ancient traditions and makes collages of them; it usually excises the ascetic dimension. In general it is not rigorously thought out, but is what I would call ?soft? thinking. --John O'Donohue-- You can see more of the interview (but not all of it) at this url: http://www.thesunmagazine.org/376_O'Donohue.pdf --Rhonda "You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing." Walker Percy _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail to go? 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