From wppdirector at gmail.com Mon Jul 20 07:45:57 2015 From: wppdirector at gmail.com (Henry Mills) Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 07:45:57 -0400 Subject: [percy-l] $100M for two copies of Lost in the Cosmos? Message-ID: <55ACDF75.7090205@gmail.com> Dear Friends of Percy: Here we find perhaps $100M as well spent as anywhere. To suggest a Percy response: "[We] live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing." I'll cover the postage if someone might purchase two copies of "Lost" for Mr. Hawking and Mr. Milner. Best, Henry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100M Initiative to Seek ET* Milner, a tech start-up entrepreneur and philanthropist, is partnering with scientists around the world to search for life among the stars. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stephen-hawking-and-yuri-milner-announce-100m-initiative-to-seek-extraterrestrial-intelligence/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From steve.petrica at gmail.com Mon Jul 20 08:43:04 2015 From: steve.petrica at gmail.com (Steve Petrica) Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 07:43:04 -0500 Subject: [percy-l] $100M for two copies of Lost in the Cosmos? In-Reply-To: <55ACDF75.7090205@gmail.com> References: <55ACDF75.7090205@gmail.com> Message-ID: Hawking's a day late and a dollar short: The "Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence" (SETI) has already been going on for more than 20 years! See the SETI Institute's website at http://www.seti.org/ Steve On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 6:45 AM, Henry Mills wrote: Dear Friends of Percy: > > Here we find perhaps $100M as well spent as anywhere. 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URL: From wppdirector at gmail.com Sat Jul 25 08:41:22 2015 From: wppdirector at gmail.com (Henry Mills) Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 08:41:22 -0400 Subject: [percy-l] Author David Madden on Percy at LSU Message-ID: <55B383F2.3010800@gmail.com> Dear Percy-L: For those interested in a short vignette of Percy as remembered by author David Madden while Percy taught at LSU. You can read more about Madden's literary career at the link at the bottom of the page, of particular interest being his encounters with Tennessee Williams and Ayn Rand. Best, Henry Mills Percy-L Administrator --- ...In 1968, Madden began 24 years of teaching at Louisiana State University. Living near him in Covington for a while was the writer Walker Percy, author of ?Love in the Ruins? and other novels. ?He got on the faculty for just a quarter. I think his daughter was going to LSU,? Madden said. ?He was a very quiet fellow. He would hold these deep philosophical discussions at his house. I don?t think he realized how deep into philosophy I was. I kind of wanted to be there, but I didn?t want to ask him. ?Anyway, he was very friendly to me. He wrote a comment on my novel ?Bijou,? which is about being a movie usher in Knoxville, at age 12. Percy told him he thought it was better than ?Huckleberry Finn.? ?So naturally, I?m well-disposed to him,? Madden said. ?Anyway, I?d see him in the hallway (at LSU), going to class or the bathroom or wherever. He would walk close to the wall, with his head down, in a kind of saunter. He was a very handsome fellow. One time he said, ?David, how do you write a novel?? I?m so naive that you can ?get? me anytime you want me. But he wasn?t trying to ?get? me. So I took him at his word and started telling him how to write a novel. ?Afterward, I realized what he meant was, he was writing a new novel, it was like he didn?t know how to write a novel - which is exactly what every writer feels. When you start a new novel, you think, how do you write a novel?? --from "David Madden, writing to all the great writers" Paul Clark, /Black Mountain News/ 2:42 p.m. EDT July 16, 2015 http://www.blackmountainnews.com/story/news/local/2015/07/16/david%C2%ADmadden%C2%ADwriting%C2%ADgreat%C2%ADwriters/30248141/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rhonda_mcdonnell at msn.com Sat Jul 25 23:22:05 2015 From: rhonda_mcdonnell at msn.com (RHONDA MCDONNELL) Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 20:22:05 -0700 Subject: [percy-l] Author David Madden on Percy at LSU In-Reply-To: <55B383F2.3010800@gmail.com> References: <55B383F2.3010800@gmail.com> Message-ID: Thanks Henry!! Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 25, 2015, at 5:41 AM, Henry Mills wrote: > > Dear Percy-L: > > For those interested in a short vignette of Percy as remembered by author David Madden while Percy taught at LSU. You can read more about Madden's literary career at the link at the bottom of the page, of particular interest being his encounters with Tennessee Williams and Ayn Rand. > > Best, > Henry Mills > Percy-L Administrator > > --- > > ...In 1968, Madden began 24 years of teaching at Louisiana State University. Living near him in Covington for a while was the writer Walker Percy, author of ?Love in the Ruins? and other novels. > > ?He got on the faculty for just a quarter. I think his daughter was going to LSU,? Madden said. ?He was a very quiet fellow. He would hold these deep philosophical discussions at his house. I don?t think he realized how deep into philosophy I was. I kind of wanted to be there, but I didn?t want to ask him. > > ?Anyway, he was very friendly to me. He wrote a comment on my novel ?Bijou,? which is about being a movie usher in Knoxville, at age 12. Percy told him he thought it was better than ?Huckleberry Finn.? ?So naturally, I?m well-disposed to him,? Madden said. > > ?Anyway, I?d see him in the hallway (at LSU), going to class or the bathroom or wherever. He would walk close to the wall, with his head down, in a kind of saunter. He was a very handsome fellow. One time he said, ?David, how do you write a novel?? I?m so naive that you can ?get? me anytime you want me. But he wasn?t trying to ?get? me. So I took him at his word and started telling him how to write a novel. > > ?Afterward, I realized what he meant was, he was writing a new novel, it was like he didn?t know how to write a novel - which is exactly what every writer feels. When you start a new novel, you think, how do you write a novel?? > > > --from "David Madden, writing to all the great writers" > Paul Clark, Black Mountain News 2:42 p.m. EDT July 16, 2015 > > http://www.blackmountainnews.com/story/news/local/2015/07/16/david%C2%ADmadden%C2%ADwriting%C2%ADgreat%C2%ADwriters/30248141/ > > > > > * Percy-L Discussion Archives: http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/percy-l/ > > * Manage Your Membership: http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/percy-l > > * Contact the Moderator: percy-l-owner (at) lists.ibiblio.org > > * Visit The Walker Percy Project: http://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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