[percy-l] a new Percy book

Henry Mills hpmills3 at austin.rr.com
Wed Mar 26 12:26:27 EDT 2008


Nikki,

Let me offer the Percy Project website as an option, or remembrances could
be compiled in a PDF document and circulated and made available for
permanent download. Guaranteed never to go out of print. And we can include
a picture of Sweet Thing and Old Broke-tail both.

Best, 
Henry



From: Jim Forest <jhforest at gmail.com>
Reply-To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion"
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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:49:55 +0100
To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion"
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Subject: Re: [percy-l] a new Percy book

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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