From pankesh at ntlworld.com Tue Nov 9 20:36:04 2010 From: pankesh at ntlworld.com (pan) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 01:36:04 +0000 Subject: [percy-l] Darren overty Message-ID: Don't know if this is correct, but was searching for old mates from leicester, happened on this website from a google search. Well if this email gets to monsieur overty, do get in touch. Regards Pankesh chandarana From robert.g.eckert at us.army.mil Sat Nov 13 08:21:30 2010 From: robert.g.eckert at us.army.mil (Eckert, Robert G SPC RES) Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 07:21:30 -0600 Subject: [percy-l] Percy quote? (UNCLASSIFIED) Message-ID: <7390815b80fc.4cde3c7a@us.army.mil> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Dear List, I seem to recall Percy saying something about missing living in the house you grew up in. The house I grew up in is on the market and has me racking my brains trying to remember/find that quote. Or, I could have the author wrong... Robert Eckert Classification: UNCLASSIFIED From jopomojo at gmail.com Sat Nov 13 10:49:49 2010 From: jopomojo at gmail.com (Jonathan Potter) Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 07:49:49 -0800 Subject: [percy-l] Percy quote? (UNCLASSIFIED) In-Reply-To: <7390815b80fc.4cde3c7a@us.army.mil> References: <7390815b80fc.4cde3c7a@us.army.mil> Message-ID: Robert, Could this be the passage you had in mind: Lost in the Cosmos, p. 146-7 (From "The Orbiting Self" section): "Only one example comes to mind of a writer who, though performing at a very high level of twentieth-century art, nevertheless manages to live on one of the few remaining islands of a more or less intact culture, in the very house where she was born, to enter into an intercourse with the society around her as naturally as the Chartres sculptor, to appear as herself, her self, the same self, both to fellow writer and fellow townsman: Eudora Welty. Perhaps also William Carlos Williams. If you do not think this remarkable, imagine that you have lived your entire life in the house where you were born. For an American, an uncanny, even an unsettling fantasy." Best regards, Jonathan Potter Spokane WA On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Eckert, Robert G SPC RES < robert.g.eckert at us.army.mil> wrote: > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > Dear List, > > I seem to recall Percy saying something about missing living in the house > you grew up in. The house I grew up in is on the market and has me racking > my brains trying to remember/find that quote. > > Or, I could have the author wrong... > > Robert Eckert > > > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > -- > 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 > > Contact the moderator: percy-l-owner at lists.ibiblio.org (note: add @ > sign when addressing email) > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From robert.g.eckert at us.army.mil Sat Nov 13 12:09:56 2010 From: robert.g.eckert at us.army.mil (Eckert, Robert G SPC RES) Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 11:09:56 -0600 Subject: [percy-l] Percy quote? (UNCLASSIFIED) Message-ID: <73b0e571e994.4cde7204@us.army.mil> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Jonathan, Thank you, that is it. I ran across Percy quoting Kierkegaard (Converstaions with WP, p.67)while I was looking. "Every man has to stand in front of the house of his childhood in order to recover himself" Robert On 11/13/10, Jonathan Potter wrote: > Robert, > > > Could this be the passage you had in mind: > > > Lost in the Cosmos, p. 146-7 (From "The Orbiting Self" section): "Only one example comes to mind of a writer who, though performing at a very high level of twentieth-century art, nevertheless manages to live on one of the few remaining islands of a more or less intact culture, in the very house where she was born, to enter into an intercourse with the society around her as naturally as the Chartres sculptor, to appear as herself, her self, the same self, both to fellow writer and fellow townsman: Eudora Welty. ?Perhaps also William Carlos Williams. ?If you do not think this remarkable, imagine that you have lived your entire life in the house where you were born. ?For an American, an uncanny, even an unsettling fantasy." > > > > > Best regards, > > > Jonathan Potter > Spokane WA > > > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Eckert, Robert G SPC RES wrote: > > > > > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > > > > > Dear List, > > > > > > > > > > I seem to recall Percy saying something about missing living in the house you grew up in. The house I grew up in is on the market and has me racking my brains trying to remember/find that quote. > > > > > > > > > > Or, I could have the author wrong... > > > > > > > > > > Robert Eckert > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > > > > > -- > > > > > An archive of all list discussion is available at http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/percy-l/(blockedhttp://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/percy-l/) > > > > > > > > > > Visit The Walker Percy Project at http://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy(blockedhttp://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy) > > > > > > > > > > Contact the moderator: percy-l-owner at lists.ibiblio.org(blockedhttp://lists.ibiblio.org) (note: add @ sign when addressing email) > > > > > > > > > > > -- > 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 > > Contact the moderator: percy-l-owner at lists.ibiblio.org (note: add @ sign when addressing email) Classification: UNCLASSIFIED