[percy-l] Percy and Bourbon and the controversies surrounding Scotch

Charles Lowry lowry.charles at gmail.com
Sun Dec 4 19:10:41 EST 2016


Dr. Percy was born thirty-two years before I was, so we did not have Two
Natural in common, though I still have on the sideboard a bottle of Early
Times.  We too had our college years "economy brands" of bourbon in
Cincinnati, just as Dr Percy had in Chapel Hill.  We very contentedly drank
Bardwell Deluxe ($3.69 for a fifth) until we chanced upon Old Crab Orchard
($4.05 for a quart).  It is a gratifying source of astonishment to me that
any shreds of my esophagus remain.

To read Walker Percy's defense of bourbon is to realize that even this very
famous and  skillful writer was, in Francis Bacon's memorable phrase,
"drenched in flesh and blood."

Chuck Lowry
Brooklyn, NY

On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 1:23 AM, RHONDA MCDONNELL <rhonda_mcdonnell at msn.com>
wrote:

> Thanks Karl! What a thoroughly enjoyable read!
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Dec 3, 2016, at 5:24 PM, Karl M. Terrell <kterrell at stokeswagner.com>
> wrote:
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> Hope y’all enjoy this delightful, amusing essay by a devotee of Percy, in
> Garden & Gun Magazine (link below).
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> The good doctor’s exploration of the bosky wonders of bourbon are given
> their just due.
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> http://gardenandgun.com/article/high-low-make-mine-scotch
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> Karl Montague Terrell
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