From steve.petrica at gmail.com Tue May 11 20:54:03 2010 From: steve.petrica at gmail.com (Steve Petrica) Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 19:54:03 -0500 Subject: [percy-l] Whither Walker Percy? [First Things] Message-ID: Whither Walker Percy? May 10, 2010 Micah Mattix Today is the twentieth anniversary of Walker Percy?s death. He died at home in Covington, Louisiana on May 10, 1990 following a two-year bout with prostate cancer. He left us six novels and two works of nonfiction, as well as numerous essays, some of which were later collected in the posthumous *Signposts in a Strange Land*... Full essay at http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2010/05/whither-walker-percy Steve -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From robert.g.eckert at us.army.mil Tue May 11 23:58:28 2010 From: robert.g.eckert at us.army.mil (Eckert, Robert G SPC RES) Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 22:58:28 -0500 Subject: [percy-l] Whither Walker Percy? [First Things] In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks for the heads up. I subscribed to _First Things_ until they struck spooky. These conservatives advocate loco violence. I don't think Walker Percy would have liked _First Things_. Percy would have liked Obama. Not everything. But, Obama is definitely more Kennedy than knucklehead. - CPL ECKERT (RET) ----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Petrica Date: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 19:54 Subject: [percy-l] Whither Walker Percy? [First Things] To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" > Whither Walker Percy? > May 10, 2010 > Micah Mattix > > Today is the twentieth anniversary of Walker Percy?s death. He > died at home > in Covington, Louisiana on May 10, 1990 following a two-year bout with > prostate cancer. He left us six novels and two works of > nonfiction, as well > as numerous essays, some of which were later collected in the > posthumous *Signposts > in a Strange Land*... > > Full essay at > http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2010/05/whither-walker-percy > > > Steve > -- > 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