[percy-l] Walker Percy, Sir Thomas More and Tom More

Lauren Stacy Berdy lauren.stacy.berdy at gmail.com
Sat May 2 13:37:24 EDT 2015


I was wondering if anyone else thought of Dr Tom More while reading or 
watching Wolf Hall?

Read Both "Wolf hall" and "Bring up the Bodies" and now watching "Wolf 
Hall"  unfold on the T.V.

Here is what this reader and watcher has noticed and wondered if others 
have anything to add?.

Sir Thomas More was an intellect. He also had the fateful gift of pride 
( Percy once said he too had this fateful gift) Pride seemed to be his 
undoing?
  His mind was his authority not his heart.He had no problem torturing 
others. His mental constructions came from his intellect.
Therefore, he thought he had the right to hurt others which he did a 
lot! He thought he know better or knew something. He did not. He had 
self enhancing pieties and was full of himself.
he became a martyr of the Catholic church .............Percy thought 
so.........

History had always made Cromwell the demon........... he helped Henry 
dissolve the church and  papal authority within England. Hilary mantel 
is a novelist. Novelist bring out factors that others leave behind. She 
has brought Cromwell forward and given him his due. From where I stand 
long over due..........

Now  Dr. Tom More narrating "Love in the Ruins" says these days of 
"Christ forgetting, Christ haunted death dealing western world".No new 
Jerusalem etc
Is Percy's Tom More a cynical version of  Sir Thomas More?   Dr More was 
a diagnostician he wanted to diagnose and heal. ( the deep abscesses in 
our souls) with the lapsometer. I cant see that part of Sir Thomas 
More..........as I have read and watch. What do they have in common? 
other than their name and why did Percy name him Dr Tom More?
I haver read LITR many times and I feel that I know Tom and how he went 
the distance to test his own soul if you will.......he also had the gift 
of loving kindness
Sir Thomas More did not......maybe he imagined in his head and could 
imagine a future "Utopia" but while on the ground in flesh he wasn't 
very nice.

he needed a flask of bourbon...............












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