From wriddick at usa.net Wed Aug 5 03:42:47 2009 From: wriddick at usa.net (Wade Riddick) Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 01:42:47 -0600 Subject: [percy-l] Tom Moore as a thief Message-ID: It's been about twenty years since I've read _The Thanatos Syndrome_, but as I recall it opens with Tom Moore returning from a prison stint for dispensing illegal pharmaceuticals through an abuse of his state-sanctioned script privileges. Today we hear that in the last ten years, the prescriptions for SSRI's have doubled - while within the day we also find out 70% of our children may be vitamin D3 "insufficient" (a condition known to cause depression, not to mention autoimmunity, allergy, obesity/diabetes and various viral, fungal and bacterial infections). This too is a topic we have hashed out on the list before. We live in an era where people campaign against smoking because it's unhealthy and harms others but at the same time they also campaign to let "sick" (I think Kierkegaard would have some fun with this word) people "self-medicate" with "medical" marijuana. There is, of course, no condition under which the combustion of any substance could be construed as healthy for the lungs. It's certainly not medicine when there's no clinical trial to determine optimum dosage for given diseases. "Go home and smoke three lids as needed for pain" is hardly scientific. Supporters of legalization have yet to convince me you can have a rational, free market in a good whose proper use denies individuals of that very rationality needed to make free markets work in the first place. This quandary is as true for dopamine-dispensing sugar-filled slushies as it is for hillbilly heroin, albeit in different degrees. My question is this. After watching all the rich people dropping dead lately because they live in a world that can't tell them no - Michael Jackson, Heath Ledger, Anna Nicole Smith - what is Tom Moore's crime really? Is he guilty of giving people a little too much "mind-expanding" fun or is Tom Moore really guilty of stealing rationality? Can the "self" ever safely medicate? Especially with a substance that seems to destroy or suspend a very necessary part of that self? Are we, in fact, suspending this self in the name of "freedom" or "consciousness-expansion" because we just don't like its constant nagging? Is there more to the dopamine delusion than drugs? Did Percy have in mind Charismatics too? The go-with-your-gut-not-with-your-head George Bush crowd? Senator John Ensign doesn't really apologize for his affair and cites King David as a way of saying that whatever his faults are, he's doing God's work so it's "all good" whatever his sins. We have to take his word for that - and "whose" word exactly is his word? What's up with that? Given the recent revelations about "The Family" in Washington political circles where men like Hitler and Pol Pot are revered as "divinely" inspired, are we witnessing an upsurge in the age-old self-aggrandizing theological fallacy of foreordination? You're either saved or you're not so nothing really matters? Nothing happens without God's okay so if Hitler had power, his actions must have been somehow blessed or sanctioned. (Ironic that "The Family" predates the digging up of the "Gospel of Judas" by about fifty years.) It totally effaces any system of free will, choices and consequences. It's a psychopathic doctrine of narcissism that's understandably magnetic for people with wealth and power who don't want to be held accountable. Is this the grandest bender there is? It's got to be hard to sober up after a dose of that. How broad is this epidemic of self-justification? Does that awful book _The Secret_ provide a secular bookend for this 'revival?' If you just wish hard enough something will come true? Triumph of the will... uber alles... with extra TARP funds on top? Why are we constantly trying to get rid of that part of the self that helps us probe the external world and defines us in relation to that world - to others? Joseph Goebbels said, "Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character." Is there anything left in modern media which really challenges that? So is Tom Moore's real crime theft? Is he like the guys toying around with heavy sodium intoxication? Are they just bigger, state-sponsored thieves? Is he a thief of rationality? Are there others out there trying to steal free will? Or do we just collectively pretend they have that ability? From kennenathens at verizon.net Wed Aug 5 12:05:14 2009 From: kennenathens at verizon.net (Ken Armstrong) Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:05:14 -0400 Subject: [percy-l] Tom Moore as a thief In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4A79ADBA.2040005@verizon.net> Wade Riddick wrote: > It's been about twenty years since I've read _The Thanatos Syndrome_, Yes, me too, and it was the last Percy novel I read and by far (I thought at the time) the best. Can't agree with you about medical marijuana and would only add that the distinction is unnecessary, because as Marshall McLuhan rightly pointed out, the difference between the potheads and the drinkers is a cultural, not moral, orientation, understanding that culture rests in great part on the senses. That one or the other sense/culture is rational and the other not is totally a prejudice of the hyper-literate. I say this as a happy and quite moderate beer drinker addicted latterly to non-fiction & who could not attain to bourbon or pot.....my incapacity for the finger-measured drink probably cause for suspicion... Cheers, Ken Armstrong From wriddick at usa.net Thu Aug 6 12:30:38 2009 From: wriddick at usa.net (Wade Riddick) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 10:30:38 -0600 Subject: [percy-l] Tom Moore as a thief In-Reply-To: <4A79ADBA.2040005@verizon.net> References: Message-ID: > Can't agree with you about medical marijuana and would only add that >the distinction is unnecessary, because as Marshall McLuhan rightly >pointed out, the difference between the potheads and the drinkers is a >cultural, not moral, orientation, understanding that culture rests in >great part on the senses. That one or the other sense/culture is >rational and the other not is totally a prejudice of the hyper-literate. >I say this as a happy and quite moderate beer drinker addicted latterly >to non-fiction & who could not attain to bourbon or pot.....my >incapacity for the finger-measured drink probably cause for suspicion... I wasn't attempting to draw a distinction between alcohol or pot as far as literary devices go. I think for Percy's work they both represent an attempt to negate rationality - to take away the pain of being a man, albeit by amnesia (intoxication) rather than being a beast (Nazism? ideology? rational irrationality?). Temporary amnesia comes from intoxication. That's the willing (or, in the case of Dunkin Donuts, not so willing/informed) ingestion of intoxicants - alcohol, pot, meth, pixie sticks (the first grade equivalent of the former items), cigarettes, french fries or pretzels at the bar. Take your pick. They're all there to boost dopamine, whether indirectly with sugar or directly like with the visual pop operatic _Transformers_ movies whose plot dangles before us as enticingly as a ball of twine in front of a kitten and unravels just as quickly. (What's that old criticism about substituting movement for growth?) This temporarily suspends the pain, although some "lucky" individuals do succeed in achieving permanent brain damage. It seems to be what the uncle is up to in _The Last Gentleman_, substituting Rum for Romanism, so to speak. The Nazis are in a deeper hole. They seem to have adopted a fundamentally rational, self-justifying form of madness in an attempt to achieve a more permanent/"final" solution. I suppose saying "thief" is another way of repackaging the rotation/repitition distraction. From kenneth.ketner at ttu.edu Fri Aug 14 14:04:41 2009 From: kenneth.ketner at ttu.edu (Kenneth Ketner) Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:04:41 -0500 Subject: [percy-l] Institute Interdisciplinary, Seminar 11-12 September 2009 Message-ID: <4A85A739.1080409@ttu.edu> Of possible interest to the Percy list: http://www.depts.ttu.edu/pragmaticism/symposium/Meaning_in_the_Arts/Welcome.html -- Kenneth Laine Ketner Paul Whitfield Horn Professor Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism Texas Tech University Charles Sanders Peirce Interdisciplinary Professor Anita Thigpen Perry School of Nursing Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center MAIL ADDRESS: Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX 79409-0002 806 742 3128 Office email: kenneth.ketner at ttu.edu Office website: http://www.pragmaticism.net Personal website: http://www.wyttynys.net From marcus at loyno.edu Mon Aug 17 09:24:13 2009 From: marcus at loyno.edu (marcus at loyno.edu) Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:24:13 -0600 Subject: [percy-l] Percy and Flitcraft Parable? Message-ID: <4a8959fd.f3.1e01ae.15857@loyno.edu> I?m wondering if anyone else on this list has read Percy?s recently published ?A Detective Story? and wondered if Percy is writing his own the male life-crisis fugue version of Dashiell Hammett?s ?Flitcraft Parable?? You can link to the Percy story here: (http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/the_hopkins_review/summary/v002/2.2.percy.html If you Google Flitcraft you?ll find the text and lots of comments. There?s a pretty good discussion here by Alan Gratz: http://gratzindustries.blogspot.com/2008/05/flitcraft-parable.html Marcus Smith From jhforest at gmail.com Tue Aug 18 03:34:29 2009 From: jhforest at gmail.com (Jim Forest) Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:34:29 +0200 Subject: [percy-l] re Percy's A Detective Story" Message-ID: <53c59b0c0908180034w88187c9r5ac1e21db9b43434@mail.gmail.com> Marcus, I did my best trying to find the text of "A Detective Story", but so far all I have find are brick walls and blind alleys. If you (or anyone on the list) has the text of the WP story, would you post it? Or if you have a URL that doesn't require a password, post that. Jim On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:24 PM, wrote: > I?m wondering if anyone else on this list has read > Percy?s recently published ?A Detective Story? and > wondered if Percy is writing his own the male life-crisis > fugue version of Dashiell Hammett?s ?Flitcraft > Parable?? > > You can link to the Percy story here: > > ( > http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/the_hopkins_review/summary/v002/2.2.percy.html > > If you Google Flitcraft you?ll find the text and lots of > comments. There?s a pretty good discussion here by Alan > Gratz: > > http://gratzindustries.blogspot.com/2008/05/flitcraft-parable.html > > Marcus Smith > > -- > 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 & Nancy site: www.incommunion.org/forest-flier/ In Communion site: www.incommunion.org photos: www.flickr.com/photos/jimforest/sets/ revised, expanded edition of "Living With Wisdom: a biography of Thomas Merton": http://incommunion.org/forest-flier/books/living-with-wisdom/ revised, expanded, all-color edition of "Praying With Icons": http://incommunion.org/forest-flier/books/praying-with-icons/ "The Road to Emmaus: Pilgrimage as a Way of Life": http://incommunion.org/forest-flier/books/the-road-to-emmaus-pilgrimage-as-a-way-of-life/ "Silent as a Stone," a children's book about a community of rescuers in Paris: http://incommunion.org/forest-flier/books/silent-as-a-stone-mother-maria-of-paris-and-the-trash-can-rescue/ blogs: On Pilgrimage: http://jimandnancyonpilgrimage.blogspot.com/ A Tale of Two Kidneys: http://ataleof2kidneys.blogspot.com/ * * * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nikkibar at aol.com Tue Aug 18 19:47:57 2009 From: nikkibar at aol.com (Garic Barranger) Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:47:57 -0500 Subject: [percy-l] re Percy's A Detective Story" In-Reply-To: <53c59b0c0908180034w88187c9r5ac1e21db9b43434@mail.gmail.com> References: <53c59b0c0908180034w88187c9r5ac1e21db9b43434@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <8485218B-0B4C-4189-AD1A-DE03780E804E@aol.com> As I understand it the story was published in the Johns Hopkins Literary Magazine. Does anyone have access to THEM? On Aug 18, 2009, at 2:34 AM, Jim Forest wrote: > Marcus, I did my best trying to find the text of "A Detective > Story", but so far all I have find are brick walls and blind alleys. > > If you (or anyone on the list) has the text of the WP story, would > you post it? Or if you have a URL that doesn't require a password, > post that. > > Jim > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:24 PM, wrote: > I?m wondering if anyone else on this list has read > Percy?s recently published ?A Detective Story? and > wondered if Percy is writing his own the male life-crisis > fugue version of Dashiell Hammett?s ?Flitcraft > Parable?? > > You can link to the Percy story here: > > (http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/the_hopkins_review/summary/v002/2.2.percy.html > > If you Google Flitcraft you?ll find the text and lots of > comments. There?s a pretty good discussion here by Alan > Gratz: > > http://gratzindustries.blogspot.com/2008/05/flitcraft-parable.html > > Marcus Smith > > -- > 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 & Nancy site: www.incommunion.org/forest-flier/ > In Communion site: www.incommunion.org > photos: www.flickr.com/photos/jimforest/sets/ > > revised, expanded edition of "Living With Wisdom: a biography of > Thomas Merton": > http://incommunion.org/forest-flier/books/living-with-wisdom/ > revised, expanded, all-color edition of "Praying With Icons": > http://incommunion.org/forest-flier/books/praying-with-icons/ > "The Road to Emmaus: Pilgrimage as a Way of Life": > http://incommunion.org/forest-flier/books/the-road-to-emmaus-pilgrimage-as-a-way-of-life/ > "Silent as a Stone," a children's book about a community of rescuers > in Paris: > http://incommunion.org/forest-flier/books/silent-as-a-stone-mother-maria-of-paris-and-the-trash-can-rescue/ > > blogs: > > On Pilgrimage: > http://jimandnancyonpilgrimage.blogspot.com/ > > A Tale of Two Kidneys: > http://ataleof2kidneys.blogspot.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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Marcus ----- Original Message Follows ----- From: percy-l-request at lists.ibiblio.org To: percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org Subject: Percy-L Digest, Vol 66, Issue 6 Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:21:23 -0400 > Send Percy-L mailing list submissions to > percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/percy-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' > to > percy-l-request at lists.ibiblio.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > percy-l-owner at lists.ibiblio.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more > specific than "Re: Contents of Percy-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: re Percy's A Detective Story" (Garic Barranger) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > ------------ > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:47:57 -0500 > From: Garic Barranger > Subject: Re: [percy-l] re Percy's A Detective Story" > To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" > > Message-ID: <8485218B-0B4C-4189-AD1A-DE03780E804E at aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > As I understand it the story was published in the Johns > Hopkins Literary Magazine. Does anyone have access to > THEM? On Aug 18, 2009, at 2:34 AM, Jim Forest wrote: > > > Marcus, I did my best trying to find the text of "A > > Detective Story", but so far all I have find are brick > walls and blind alleys. > > > If you (or anyone on the list) has the text of the WP > > story, would you post it? Or if you have a URL that > > doesn't require a password, post that. > > > > Jim > > > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:24 PM, > > wrote: I?m wondering if anyone else on this list has > > read Percy?s recently published ?A Detective Story? and > > wondered if Percy is writing his own the male > > life-crisis fugue version of Dashiell Hammett?s > > ?Flitcraft Parable?? > > > > You can link to the Percy story here: > > > > > (http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/the_hopkins_review/summary/v > 002/2.2.percy.html > > > If you Google Flitcraft you?ll find the text and lots of > > comments. There?s a pretty good discussion here by Alan > > Gratz: > > > > > http://gratzindustries.blogspot.com/2008/05/flitcraft-parable.html > > > > Marcus Smith > > > > -- > > 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 & Nancy site: www.incommunion.org/forest-flier/ > > In Communion site: www.incommunion.org > > photos: www.flickr.com/photos/jimforest/sets/ > > > > revised, expanded edition of "Living With Wisdom: a > > biography of Thomas Merton": > > > http://incommunion.org/forest-flier/books/living-with-wisdom/ > > revised, expanded, all-color edition of "Praying With > > Icons": > http://incommunion.org/forest-flier/books/praying-with-icons/ > > "The Road to Emmaus: Pilgrimage as a Way of Life": > > > http://incommunion.org/forest-flier/books/the-road-to-emmaus-pilgrimage-as-a-way-of-life/ > > "Silent as a Stone," a children's book about a community > > of rescuers in Paris: > > > http://incommunion.org/forest-flier/books/silent-as-a-stone-mother-maria-of-paris-and-the-trash-can-rescue/ > > > > blogs: > > > > On Pilgrimage: > > http://jimandnancyonpilgrimage.blogspot.com/ > > > > A Tale of Two Kidneys: > > http://ataleof2kidneys.blogspot.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 -------------- next part > -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/percy-l/attachments/20090818/34a0cf0c/attachment-0001.htm > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Percy-L mailing list > Percy-L at lists.ibiblio.org > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/percy-l > > > End of Percy-L Digest, Vol 66, Issue 6 > ************************************** From nikkibar at aol.com Fri Aug 21 18:50:07 2009 From: nikkibar at aol.com (Garic Barranger) Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:50:07 -0500 Subject: [percy-l] Percy-L Digest, Vol 66, Issue 6 In-Reply-To: <4a8e8cf4.33d.1f719c.20234@loyno.edu> References: <4a8e8cf4.33d.1f719c.20234@loyno.edu> Message-ID: <3713BD09-509F-4D0E-99B8-E100266177EE@aol.com> We now have the story out on pdf format but its a bitch to read. I'll send it to you if you are still without it. Its disappointing and should have been kept from publication. Nikki On Aug 21, 2009, at 7:03 AM, marcus at loyno.edu wrote: > I tried to go through my Loyola account. The Hopkins > journal is listed on MUSE (which Loyola subscribes to), but > when I asked for Percy's story I got "there is no electronic > full text for this item." I suspect that Percy's > agent/publisher contract imposed this restriction. When > Sarah and I visited Bunt last spring, she referred to some > static at having given permission for the "Detective Story" > to be published by Hopkins without going through > agent/publisher. > > Marcus > > ----- Original Message Follows ----- > From: percy-l-request at lists.ibiblio.org > To: percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org > Subject: Percy-L Digest, Vol 66, Issue 6 > Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:21:23 -0400 > >> Send Percy-L mailing list submissions to >> percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org >> >> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/percy-l >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' >> to >> percy-l-request at lists.ibiblio.org >> >> You can reach the person managing the list at >> percy-l-owner at lists.ibiblio.org >> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more >> specific than "Re: Contents of Percy-L digest..." >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Re: re Percy's A Detective Story" (Garic Barranger) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------- >> ------------ >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:47:57 -0500 >> From: Garic Barranger >> Subject: Re: [percy-l] re Percy's A Detective Story" >> To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" >> >> Message-ID: <8485218B-0B4C-4189-AD1A-DE03780E804E at aol.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" >> >> As I understand it the story was published in the Johns >> Hopkins Literary Magazine. Does anyone have access to >> THEM? On Aug 18, 2009, at 2:34 AM, Jim Forest wrote: >> >>> Marcus, I did my best trying to find the text of "A >>> Detective Story", but so far all I have find are brick >> walls and blind alleys. > >>> If you (or anyone on the list) has the text of the WP >>> story, would you post it? Or if you have a URL that >>> doesn't require a password, post that. >>> >>> Jim >>> >>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:24 PM, >>> wrote: I?m wondering if anyone else on this list has >>> read Percy?s recently published ?A Detective Story? and >>> wondered if Percy is writing his own the male >>> life-crisis fugue version of Dashiell Hammett?s >>> ?Flitcraft Parable?? >>> >>> You can link to the Percy story here: >>> >>> >> (http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/the_hopkins_review/summary/v >> 002/2.2.percy.html > >>> If you Google Flitcraft you?ll find the text and lots of >>> comments. There?s a pretty good discussion here by Alan >>> Gratz: >>> >>> >> > http://gratzindustries.blogspot.com/2008/05/flitcraft-parable.html >>> >>> Marcus Smith >>> >>> -- >>> 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 & Nancy site: www.incommunion.org/forest-flier/ >>> In Communion site: www.incommunion.org >>> photos: www.flickr.com/photos/jimforest/sets/ >>> >>> revised, expanded edition of "Living With Wisdom: a >>> biography of Thomas Merton": >>> >> > http://incommunion.org/forest-flier/books/living-with-wisdom/ >>> revised, expanded, all-color edition of "Praying With >>> Icons": >> > http://incommunion.org/forest-flier/books/praying-with-icons/ >>> "The Road to Emmaus: Pilgrimage as a Way of Life": >>> >> > http://incommunion.org/forest-flier/books/the-road-to-emmaus-pilgrimage-as-a-way-of-life/ >>> "Silent as a Stone," a children's book about a community >>> of rescuers in Paris: >>> >> > http://incommunion.org/forest-flier/books/silent-as-a-stone-mother-maria-of-paris-and-the-trash-can-rescue/ >>> >>> blogs: >>> >>> On Pilgrimage: >>> http://jimandnancyonpilgrimage.blogspot.com/ >>> >>> A Tale of Two Kidneys: >>> http://ataleof2kidneys.blogspot.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 -------------- next part >> -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: >> > http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/percy-l/attachments/20090818/34a0cf0c/attachment-0001.htm >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Percy-L mailing list >> Percy-L at lists.ibiblio.org >> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/percy-l >> >> >> End of Percy-L Digest, Vol 66, Issue 6 >> ************************************** > -- > 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 nikkibar at aol.com Fri Aug 21 18:56:27 2009 From: nikkibar at aol.com (Garic Barranger) Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:56:27 -0500 Subject: [percy-l] Percy-L Digest, Vol 66, Issue 6 In-Reply-To: <4a8e8cf4.33d.1f719c.20234@loyno.edu> References: <4a8e8cf4.33d.1f719c.20234@loyno.edu> Message-ID: <639A994F-F808-4EAB-BB8A-C93FC5911439@aol.com> Now that you are retired, is seems that our long overdue lunch should be up for grabs. Do you have anything that brings you this way? I have been working on a meandering history of my mom with an extended foray into my nightmare with Thelma which might interest you. Nikki On Aug 21, 2009, at 7:03 AM, marcus at loyno.edu wrote: > I tried to go through my Loyola account. The Hopkins > journal is listed on MUSE (which Loyola subscribes to), but > when I asked for Percy's story I got "there is no electronic > full text for this item." I suspect that Percy's > agent/publisher contract imposed this restriction. When > Sarah and I visited Bunt last spring, she referred to some > static at having given permission for the "Detective Story" > to be published by Hopkins without going through > agent/publisher. > > Marcus > > ----- Original Message Follows ----- > From: percy-l-request at lists.ibiblio.org > To: percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org > Subject: Percy-L Digest, Vol 66, Issue 6 > Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:21:23 -0400 > >> Send Percy-L mailing list submissions to >> percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org >> >> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/percy-l >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' >> to >> percy-l-request at lists.ibiblio.org >> >> You can reach the person managing the list at >> percy-l-owner at lists.ibiblio.org >> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more >> specific than "Re: Contents of Percy-L digest..." >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Re: re Percy's A Detective Story" (Garic Barranger) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------- >> ------------ >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:47:57 -0500 >> From: Garic Barranger >> Subject: Re: [percy-l] re Percy's A Detective Story" >> To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" >> >> Message-ID: <8485218B-0B4C-4189-AD1A-DE03780E804E at aol.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" >> >> As I understand it the story was published in the Johns >> Hopkins Literary Magazine. Does anyone have access to >> THEM? On Aug 18, 2009, at 2:34 AM, Jim Forest wrote: >> >>> Marcus, I did my best trying to find the text of "A >>> Detective Story", but so far all I have find are brick >> walls and blind alleys. > >>> If you (or anyone on the list) has the text of the WP >>> story, would you post it? Or if you have a URL that >>> doesn't require a password, post that. >>> >>> Jim >>> >>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:24 PM, >>> wrote: I?m wondering if anyone else on this list has >>> read Percy?s recently published ?A Detective Story? and >>> wondered if Percy is writing his own the male >>> life-crisis fugue version of Dashiell Hammett?s >>> ?Flitcraft Parable?? >>> >>> You can link to the Percy story here: >>> >>> >> (http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/the_hopkins_review/summary/v >> 002/2.2.percy.html > >>> If you Google Flitcraft you?ll find the text and lots of >>> comments. There?s a pretty good discussion here by Alan >>> Gratz: >>> >>> >> > http://gratzindustries.blogspot.com/2008/05/flitcraft-parable.html >>> >>> Marcus Smith >>> >>> -- >>> 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 & Nancy site: www.incommunion.org/forest-flier/ >>> In Communion site: www.incommunion.org >>> photos: www.flickr.com/photos/jimforest/sets/ >>> >>> revised, expanded edition of "Living With Wisdom: a >>> biography of Thomas Merton": >>> >> > http://incommunion.org/forest-flier/books/living-with-wisdom/ >>> revised, expanded, all-color edition of "Praying With >>> Icons": >> > http://incommunion.org/forest-flier/books/praying-with-icons/ >>> "The Road to Emmaus: Pilgrimage as a Way of Life": >>> >> > http://incommunion.org/forest-flier/books/the-road-to-emmaus-pilgrimage-as-a-way-of-life/ >>> "Silent as a Stone," a children's book about a community >>> of rescuers in Paris: >>> >> > http://incommunion.org/forest-flier/books/silent-as-a-stone-mother-maria-of-paris-and-the-trash-can-rescue/ >>> >>> blogs: >>> >>> On Pilgrimage: >>> http://jimandnancyonpilgrimage.blogspot.com/ >>> >>> A Tale of Two Kidneys: >>> http://ataleof2kidneys.blogspot.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 -------------- next part >> -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: >> > http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/percy-l/attachments/20090818/34a0cf0c/attachment-0001.htm >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Percy-L mailing list >> Percy-L at lists.ibiblio.org >> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/percy-l >> >> >> End of Percy-L Digest, Vol 66, Issue 6 >> ************************************** > -- > 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