[percy-l] Several mentions of Percy
Henry Mills
wppdirector at gmail.com
Mon Dec 29 09:15:43 EST 2014
Thanks for sending these Percy items through the list, Janet. For those
interested, the article link is:
https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/394971/carry-fire
Best regards,
Henry Mills
On 12/29/14 12:04 AM, janetcantor37--- via Percy-L wrote:
>
> I am highlighting excerpts, but if you want to read the whole thing,
> click on the title.
>
>
> To Carry the Fire
> <https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/394971/carry-fire>
>
> NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE <http://www.nationalreview.com/>
> DECEMBER 17, 2014 11:00 PM
> To Carry the Fire
>
> By Ian Tuttle
> ....
> The End is always nigh, but it seems to be more nigh than usual of
> late....
>
> “Nothing is easier,” wrote Walker Percy in his essay “Notes for a
> Novel about the End of the World,” “than to set up as a two-bit hippie
> Cassandra crying havoc in bad verse.....
>
> In the essay on apocalyptic fiction mentioned above, Walker Percy
> (who, one might note, wrote at least one such tale, /Love in the
> Ruins/, subtitle: “The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the
> End of the World”) concludes: “Perhaps it is only through the
> conjuring up of catastrophe, the destruction of all Exxon signs, and
> the sprouting of vines in the church pews, that the novelist can make
> vicarious use of catastrophe in order that he and his reader may come
> to themselves.”....
>
> By way of comparison, consider not our prophets “in reverse” (as Percy
> calls apocalyptic authors), but a prophet of the more common type...
>
>
> ..... the apocalyptic novel as envisioned by Percy, “‘religious’ in
> its root sense as signifying a radical bond, as the writer sees it,
> which connects man with reality — or the failure of such a bond — and
> so confers meaning to his life — or the absence of meaning.” The
> apocalyptic novel, in its highest form, is God-haunted.
>
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