[percy-l] Walker Percy's Theory of Hurricanes

Leslie Marsh lesliemarsh at gmail.com
Wed Aug 26 14:23:14 EDT 2015


A follow up to Walter's piece:
http://www.towntopics.com/wordpress/2015/08/26/new-orleans-before-katrina-walker-percys-moviegoer-and-the-aesthetics-of-adversity/

Cheers,

Leslie.

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 7:03 AM, Henry Mills <wppdirector at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Percy-L:
>
> An essay of interest with reflections on Katrina and New Orleans by Walter
> Isaacson, recent biographer of Steve Jobs.
>
> Best,
> Henry Mills
> Percy-L Administrator
>
> --
> New York Times - Sunday Book Review
> Aug. 4, 2015
>
> Walker Percy's Theory of Hurricanes
> by Walter Isaacson
>
> Walker Percy had a theory about hurricanes. "Though science taught that
> good environments were better than bad environments, it appeared to him
> that the opposite was the case," he wrote of Will Barrett, the
> semi-autobiographical title character of his second novel, "The Last
> Gentleman." "Take hurricanes, for example, certainly a bad environment if
> ever there was one. It was his impression that not just he but other people
> felt better in hurricanes." . . .
>
> Continued at:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/books/review/walker-percys-theory-of-hurricanes.html?_r=0
>
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