[percy-l] a new Percy book

Jim Forest jhforest at gmail.com
Wed Mar 26 11:49:55 EDT 2008


Yes, Nikki, do write the suggested book!

from another guaranteed customer...

Jim Forest

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Karey Perkins <karey1 at charter.net> wrote:

>  Nikki,
>
> I love all these little vignettes you relate about your interactions with
> Percy and Percy in his life.  They aren't in Tolson or Samway, and they
> really add much to the picture of the man.  When I went to the UNC archives
> and read the Percy papers, there were such interesting things in the notes
> that showed sides of him you don't get elsewhere -  a couple of times in the
> immense pack of papers there were some exclamations of religious joy written
> down in one or two word exclamations that were completely opposite the
> picture you get from the biographies and his writings – that of a cool,
> analytical, stoic man who took his faith seriously but very intellectually.
>
> Why don't you write all of these little stories down on paper, then bind
> the pages together in that thing we call a book?  I bet a lot of people
> would buy it – at least one (me) would.
>
> You could call it:  Percy and me.  Or:  My Dinner[s] with Walker Percy
> Or:  What Shelby Didn't Know.  (Since apparently Shelby and Walker didn't
> talk about that stuff.)  Or:  My Walk with Walker.
>
> OK, maybe you'd better be the one to name it.
>
> Karey
>
>
>


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