[percy-l] Ten Best Southern Novels of All Time...
Beck, David A
dabeck at iupui.edu
Wed Sep 9 23:14:42 EDT 2009
Karey,
When I look over my son's shoulder when he is doing the IM thing, I
feel lost--which is exactly the way he wants me to feel, right? I feel
old/I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. No chance the
mermaids will be singing for me. Even if they did, it would be in some
coded-language. No, wait. I can hear the mermaids: "Don't wish your
girlfriend was hot like me?/ Don't cha?"
Time to go to bed.
-David
Quoting Karey Perkins <karey1 at charter.net>:
> It's an texting term - a bit more advanced than LOL.
>
> Rolling
> On the
> Floor
> Laughing
> My
> Ass
> Off
>
> I'm an old gal, but my 22-year-old daughter keeps me young and up-to-date...
> and since that's about the only way I can get her to communicate with me, I
> gotta learn the lingo! : )
>
> Karey
>
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> From: percy-l-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:percy-l-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Beck, David A
> Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 10:39 PM
> To: percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [percy-l] Ten Best Southern Novels of All Time...
>
> At the risk of exposing myself as an old guy, what does ROFLMAO mean?
>
> Ever-increasingly clueless,
>
> David
>
>
> Quoting Karey Perkins <karey1 at charter.net>:
>
>> We had this discussion before on the best Percy novel and didn't come to a
>> consensus - and for me, I've concluded it's impossible to choose. Replace
>> #6 the Moviegoer with the Last Gentleman? Or another one? How could I
> say?
>> As I go through the dissertation and edit the chapters on each, I think
>> they're all great and do different things - all good and necessary. With
>> the current dearth of Percy fans and attention - I was surprised - and
>> thrilled - to see one of his - any in fact, in the top ten, and the rest
>> filling out the depth of the list.
>>
>> I have a friend who also says ATKM is best novel ever written - swears by
>> it, always has. Loved the description of it you gave, Rhonda, - it was
>> beautiful! And he felt exactly the same way.
>>
>> I also loved C of D and was ROFLMAO (can you say that about good
>> literature??) when I read it. Would be a great movie. (Wish Percy's
> would
>> be a movie too...)
>>
>> I'm glad to see O'Connor made the list as well... She is a true genius.
>>
>> Karey
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: percy-l-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
>> [mailto:percy-l-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Beck, David A
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 9:50 PM
>> To: percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org
>> Subject: Re: [percy-l] Ten Best Southern Novels of All Time...
>>
>> Agreed! I'd like to have seen C of D moved up, too. Wasn't someone
>> talking about making a movie based on Dunces? Can you imagine what the
>> Cohen brothers could do with that one.
>>
>> -David
>>
>>
>>
>> Quoting RHONDA MCDONNELL <rhonda_mcdonnell at msn.com>:
>>
>>>
>>> Since Absalom, Absalom is my favorite Faulkner novel, I had no real
>>> complaints (even if AKM is the one I keep coming back to). I
>>> certainly agree, David, with the dread followed by relief regarding
>>> Huck Finn. Just because Hemingway thought it was the greatest
>>> doesn't mean the rest of us have to keep drinking that kool-aid. I
>>> would've liked to have seen A Confederacy of Dunces moved up, by the
>>> way. I forgot to mention that last night.
>>>
>>> --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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 09:29:04 -0400
>>>> From: dabeck at iupui.edu
>>>> To: percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [percy-l] Ten Best Southern Novels of All Time...
>>>>
>>>> Hey Rhonda,
>>>>
>>>> I have to (respectfully, of course) disagree. I was hoping that they
>>>> weren't going to put Huck Finn as number one. But I completely agree
>>>> with Absalom being number one; in fact, I'd go as far to say that it is
>>>> the great American novel. Your description of AKM fits Absalom as well
>>>> ("the confluence of all American
>>>> > Literature, with all the past flowing in and everything after
>>>> > carrying a piece of it").
>>>>
>>>> That's just my two cents. Both novels are great. But I would have
>>>> switched Last Gentleman in place of The Moviegoer. (Yes, I think my
>>>> letter ended up with yours.)
>>>>
>>>> I'm interested in hearing what others think.
>>>>
>>>> -David
>>>>
>>>> Quoting RHONDA MCDONNELL <rhonda_mcdonnell at msn.com>:
>>>>
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks Karey. Looks like just about all of WP's fiction got mentioned
>>>> > (I didn't see Thanatos or LITR but I was skimming--I guess that's 2/3
>>>> > then). It's hard to argue with #1 and #2 except I'd flip their
>>>> > order. All the King's Men is the confluence of all American
>>>> > Literature, with all the past flowing in and everything after
>>>> > carrying a piece of it. But that's just me getting a little purple
>>>> > about it. It just doesn't get better than that, I say. Unfortunately,
>>>> > my survey must have gotten lost in the mail.
>>>> >
>>>> > --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
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > From: karey1 at charter.net
>>>> > To: percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org
>>>> > Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 13:18:50 -0400
>>>> > Subject: [percy-l] Ten Best Southern Novels of All Time...
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> http://www.oxfordamerican.org/articles/2009/aug/27/best-southern-novels-all-
>> time/
>>>> >
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>>>> >
>>>> > Percy is #6 on this list with ?The Moviegoer,?
>>>> > but if you click on the link at the bottom of the list, you?ll find
>>>> > others by him as well, further down.
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > _________________________________________________________________
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>>>> >
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