[percy-l] LITR Slow Read
Henry Mills
wppdirector at gmail.com
Tue Jul 22 01:27:12 EDT 2014
Ah, yes, Rhonda, to me sometimes the randomness (seeming?) of the cosmos
will cast a message in a bottle back upon our shore. All of us on the
collective shore of Percy-L thank you, and Patrick forthcoming, for
continuing to lead us into Percy's wonderful world of strange signposts
in their insights about the enduring human search for transcendent
meaning beyond the "vacuous self," the ghost in the machine that
inhabits each.
For me, as another prominent role he occupies, Percy is a writer who
"speaks" to us in a novel form about an age when we more often than not
are told that only the empirical or the material matters as a reigning
worldview. Of course, one need only look as far as Percy's essay,
"Culture: The Antinomy of the Scientific Method," in Message in the
Bottle to see him initiate semiotic trouble there, with such poignant
Percy-esque questions as: "who is studying the scientists?".
I hope you will join me in a toast of bourbon to the good Doctor Percy
and the enjoyable read of LiTR we continue. Despite the sometimes
political differences that jaunt across our list, we all share in our
community a common appreciation for Percy's work. I say let that
appreciation continue, even when proverbially the sand trap beckons.
Best,
Henry
On 7/21/14, 9:09 PM, RHONDA MCDONNELL wrote:
> My mistake, Folks,
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> Patrick Lynch will be leading us off next week on the July 4th section. His initial message somehow was lost in the cosmos, but he was patient enough to resend!
>
> Rhonda
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> Sent from my iPad
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