From bradley.a.scott at gmail.com Thu Oct 20 14:42:03 2016 From: bradley.a.scott at gmail.com (Bradley Scott) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 14:42:03 -0400 Subject: [percy-l] Prescribed reading Message-ID: Inexplicably, Percy is not mentioned in this article from The Guardian, a British periodical. Prescribed reading: why medicine is good training for writing fiction, by Phil Whitaker. Bradley A. Scott From honeyjbc at gmail.com Thu Oct 20 14:46:45 2016 From: honeyjbc at gmail.com (janetcantor37@yahoo.com) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 18:46:45 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [percy-l] Prescribed reading References: <657364048.674977.1476989205612.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <657364048.674977.1476989205612@mail.yahoo.com> So now's your opportunity. If you are able to comment or write a letter to the editor, go for it. We have to educate the world.Janet Cantor On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Bradley Scott wrote: Inexplicably, Percy is not mentioned in this article from The Guardian, a British periodical. 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We have to educate the world. > Janet Cantor > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Bradley Scott > wrote: > Inexplicably, Percy is not mentioned in this article from The > Guardian, a British periodical. > > Prescribed reading: why medicine is good training for writing fiction, > by Phil Whitaker. > prescribed-reading-why-medicine-is-good-training-for-writing-fiction> > > Bradley A. Scott > * Percy-L Discussion Archives: http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/percy-l/ > > > * 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... URL: From lowry.charles at gmail.com Sat Oct 22 11:46:03 2016 From: lowry.charles at gmail.com (Charles Lowry) Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 11:46:03 -0400 Subject: [percy-l] Prescribed reading In-Reply-To: References: <657364048.674977.1476989205612.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <657364048.674977.1476989205612@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: I am pulling this from memory, so I may not have it quite right, but I believe Eudora Welty said at Walker Percy's memorial service that the role of the physician and the novelist had this in common, that they both listened to the patient's heart and said, "Thou ailest here and here and here." On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Burma Jones wrote: > Good find Bradley! What a conspicuous omission. > > Cheers, > > Leslie. > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 11:46 AM, janetcantor37 at yahoo.com < > honeyjbc at gmail.com> wrote: > >> So now's your opportunity. If you are able to comment or write a letter >> to the editor, go for it. We have to educate the world. >> Janet Cantor >> >> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Bradley Scott >> wrote: >> Inexplicably, Percy is not mentioned in this article from The >> Guardian, a British periodical. >> >> Prescribed reading: why medicine is good training for writing fiction, >> by Phil Whitaker. >> > scribed-reading-why-medicine-is-good-training-for-writing-fiction> >> >> Bradley A. Scott >> * Percy-L Discussion Archives: http://lists.ibiblio.org/piper >> mail/percy-l/ >> >> >> * Percy-L Discussion Archives: http://lists.ibiblio.org/piper >> mail/percy-l/ >> >> * Manage Your Membership: http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailm >> an/listinfo/percy-l >> >> * Contact the Moderator: percy-l-owner (at) lists.ibiblio.org >> >> * Visit The Walker Percy Project: http://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy >> >> > > * 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... URL: From lauren.stacy.berdy at gmail.com Sat Oct 22 13:40:32 2016 From: lauren.stacy.berdy at gmail.com (Lauren Stacy Berdy) Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 13:40:32 -0400 Subject: [percy-l] Prescribed reading In-Reply-To: References: <657364048.674977.1476989205612.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <657364048.674977.1476989205612@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <436eabe0-22d9-bc7a-8c07-7034f392507b@gmail.com> It is important to realize that you are all the (a) link............... it is you who keep the good Doctors thoughts alive......not the writer of the article. It's hard to educate anyone when interest isn't present. People have to stop and read and that's hard Percy might even be hard for those who dont want to stop and think on things. Who really thinks now? the journalist author just names names that have meaning to him..............names he remembers names that connect his thoughts( Historians being the worst)...........that is how thought works and perhaps memory too. what is wonderful for me is that Dr Percy spoke to me. I looked over his shoulder and read his words and I was interested in many things he had to he to say. It made a lot of sense and I tasted the mystery of life. AND sometimes... my moving mind makes use of his insights. thank you, Lauren Stacy Berdy Lauren Stacy Berdy (614) 314-4162 cell (754) 816-7508 Lauren.Stacy.Berdy at gmail.com LaurenBrdy at aol.com LaurenStacyBerdy.com On 10/22/2016 11:46 AM, Charles Lowry wrote: > I am pulling this from memory, so I may not have it quite right, but I > believe Eudora Welty said at Walker Percy's memorial service that the > role of the physician and the novelist had this in common, that they > both listened to the patient's heart and said, "Thou ailest here and > here and here." > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Burma Jones > wrote: > > Good find Bradley! What a conspicuous omission. > > Cheers, > > Leslie. > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 11:46 AM, janetcantor37 at yahoo.com > > wrote: > > So now's your opportunity. If you are able to comment or write > a letter to the editor, go for it. We have to educate the world. > Janet Cantor > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Bradley Scott > > wrote: > > Inexplicably, Percy is not mentioned in this article from The > Guardian, a British periodical. > > Prescribed reading: why medicine is good training for > writing fiction, > by Phil Whitaker. > > > > Bradley A. 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URL: From rhonda_mcdonnell at msn.com Sat Oct 22 14:18:04 2016 From: rhonda_mcdonnell at msn.com (RHONDA MCDONNELL) Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 18:18:04 +0000 Subject: [percy-l] Prescribed reading In-Reply-To: References: <657364048.674977.1476989205612.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <657364048.674977.1476989205612@mail.yahoo.com> , Message-ID: Charles, is she didn't say it that way she should have! Thanks for sharing. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 22, 2016, at 8:46 AM, Charles Lowry > wrote: I am pulling this from memory, so I may not have it quite right, but I believe Eudora Welty said at Walker Percy's memorial service that the role of the physician and the novelist had this in common, that they both listened to the patient's heart and said, "Thou ailest here and here and here." On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Burma Jones > wrote: Good find Bradley! What a conspicuous omission. Cheers, Leslie. On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 11:46 AM, janetcantor37 at yahoo.com > wrote: So now's your opportunity. If you are able to comment or write a letter to the editor, go for it. We have to educate the world. Janet Cantor On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Bradley Scott > wrote: Inexplicably, Percy is not mentioned in this article from The Guardian, a British periodical. Prescribed reading: why medicine is good training for writing fiction, by Phil Whitaker. Bradley A. 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URL: From pharmboycu at yahoo.com Tue Oct 25 09:12:57 2016 From: pharmboycu at yahoo.com (Dr. John Creech, Jr.) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 13:12:57 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [percy-l] Hi from new member References: <681034570.422788.1477401178036.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <681034570.422788.1477401178036@mail.yahoo.com> Good morning everyone-- Thank you for allowing me to be part of this list. I'm John and I'm very happy to have found Percy's writings and this list. Over the last year or so, I've read Percy's novels and found them to be absolutely amazing. He has become tied for my favorite writer with Marcel Proust and Jack Finney. I'm not sure what would be helpful to introduce myself to this group other than I'm a pharmacist from North Carolina who loves to read. I look forward to reading the discussion and participating as I can. Have a great day-- John From jhforest at gmail.com Wed Oct 26 05:06:39 2016 From: jhforest at gmail.com (Jim Forest) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 11:06:39 +0200 Subject: [percy-l] Hi from new member Message-ID: Welcome, John. Have you a favorite Percy novel? Jim Forest (currently re-reading Love in the Ruins) On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Dr. John Creech, Jr. wrote: > Good morning everyone-- > > Thank you for allowing me to be part of this list. I'm John and I'm very > happy to have found Percy's writings and this list. Over the last year or > so, I've read Percy's novels and found them to be absolutely amazing. He > has become tied for my favorite writer with Marcel Proust and Jack Finney. > I'm not sure what would be helpful to introduce myself to this group other > than I'm a pharmacist from North Carolina who loves to read. I look > forward to reading the discussion and participating as I can. > > Have a great day-- > > John > * 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 > * * * *Books in print*: www.jimandnancyforest.com/books/ *Jim & Nancy web site*: www.jimandnancyforest.com *Photo albums*: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimforest/albums *Facebook*: https://www.facebook.com/jim.forest1 *Jim & Nancy Forest* Kanisstraat 5 / 1811 GJ Alkmaar / The Netherlands * * * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From honeyjbc at gmail.com Wed Oct 26 07:33:50 2016 From: honeyjbc at gmail.com (honeyjbc1 .) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 07:33:50 -0400 Subject: [percy-l] from Janet Cantor Message-ID: Welcome Dr. Creech, After you have finished rereading Love in the Ruins, go to the archives of the Percy List from 2015 in the summer time and see what some readers from the List had to say about the novel in our slow read of it. You can add your two cents. We would love that. Janet Author of An Epistolary Life -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pharmboycu at yahoo.com Wed Oct 26 08:21:10 2016 From: pharmboycu at yahoo.com (Dr. John Creech, Jr.) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:21:10 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [percy-l] Hi from new member References: <157856170.1309327.1477484470784.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <157856170.1309327.1477484470784@mail.yahoo.com> Hi Jim! Thank you for the kind welcome! It's tough to pick a favorite, but right now that would have to be Lancelot. At least until I pick up Love In The Ruins and catch up with the reading program. (Can you imagine if there actually was a Lapsometer?!?!) How about you, Jim, and everyone else too? Favorite Percy novel? I came to Percy through Shelby Foote and, though some may consider this a bit heretical, I think Percy to be a better writer. (Maybe I think that because I'm learning that my views also align with the Christian existentialists?) I'm making plans to head down to St. Francisville for the 2017 Walker Percy Weekend. I'm sure it will be a blast and I look forward to making some new friends there. -------------------------------------------- On Wed, 10/26/16, Jim Forest wrote: Subject: Re: [percy-l] Hi from new member To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2016, 5:06 AM Welcome, John. Have you a favorite Percy novel? Jim Forest (currently re-reading Love in the Ruins) From pharmboycu at yahoo.com Wed Oct 26 08:30:24 2016 From: pharmboycu at yahoo.com (Dr. John Creech, Jr.) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:30:24 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [percy-l] from Janet Cantor References: <1771748476.1338435.1477485024635.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1771748476.1338435.1477485024635@mail.yahoo.com> Hi Janet! Thank you as well for your kind welcome. And I'm just John. :) I had to put the professional title in my e-mail because of some professional pharmacy lists I was in and, quite honestly, I can't remember how to remove it. I could take the time to figure it out, but I'm a bit on the lazy side as well. I'll do just that! It'll be fun to participate in the slow read. I'm back in school now, so any fun reading I do is necessarily spread out over time. I see your signature mentions your work, An Epistolary Life. I looked it up on Amazon and as a fellow letter writer I find it very intriguing. Is Amazon the best place to order a copy or do you get a better rate of return from a different place? If I'm going to order a copy, I may as well make it as beneficial for the author as possible. :) John -------------------------------------------- On Wed, 10/26/16, honeyjbc1 . wrote: Subject: [percy-l] from Janet Cantor To: "percy lists" Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2016, 7:33 AM Welcome Dr. Creech, After you have finished rereading Love in the Ruins, go to the archives of the Percy List from 2015 in the summer time and see what some readers from the List had to say about the novel in our slow read of it.You can add your two cents.?We would love that.Janet Author of An Epistolary Life -----Inline Attachment Follows----- * 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 From jhforest at gmail.com Thu Oct 27 04:02:58 2016 From: jhforest at gmail.com (Jim Forest) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 10:02:58 +0200 Subject: [percy-l] Walker Percy on dislocation Message-ID: Walker Percy on dislocation http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/10/26/you-have-every- reason-to-be-depressed/ * * * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Favorite Percy novel? I came > to Percy through Shelby Foote and, though some may consider this a bit > heretical, I think Percy to be a better writer. (Maybe I think that > because I'm learning that my views also align with the Christian > existentialists?) > > I'm making plans to head down to St. Francisville for the 2017 Walker > Percy Weekend. I'm sure it will be a blast and I look forward to making > some new friends there. > > > -------------------------------------------- > On Wed, 10/26/16, Jim Forest wrote: > > Subject: Re: [percy-l] Hi from new member > To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" < > percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org> > Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2016, 5:06 AM > > Welcome, John. > > Have you a favorite Percy novel? > > Jim Forest > (currently re-reading Love in the Ruins) > > > > * 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 > -- just out: *The Root of War is Fear: Thomas Merton's Advice to Peacemakers:* http://jimandnancyforest.com/2016/06/root-of-war-is-fear/ recent books: *Loving Our Enemies: Reflections on the Hardest Commandment: * www.jimandnancyforest.com/2014/07/loving-our-enemies/ *Saint Nicholas and the Nine Gold Coins: * www.jimandnancyforest.com/2015/04/saint-nicholas-and-the-nine-gold-coins/ *Books in print*: www.jimandnancyforest.com/books/ *Jim & Nancy web site*: www.jimandnancyforest.com *Photo albums*: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimforest/albums *Facebook*: https://www.facebook.com/jim.forest1 *Jim & Nancy Forest* Kanisstraat 5 / 1811 GJ Alkmaar / The Netherlands * * * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Do you mean do I believe the dogma that the Catholic Church proposes for belief? Q: Yes. A: Yes. Q: How is such a belief possible in this day and age? A: What else is there? Q: What do you mean, what else is there? There is humanism, atheism, agnosticism, Marxism, behaviorism, materialism, Buddhism, Muhammadanism, Sufism, astrology, occultism, theosophy. A: That?s what I mean. Q: I don?t understand. Would you exclude, for example, scientific humanism as a rational and honorable alternative? A: Yes. Q: Why? A: It?s not good enough. Q: Why not? A: This life is too much trouble, far too strange, to arrive at the end of it and then to be asked what you make of it and have to answer ?Scientific humanism.? That won?t do. A poor show. Life is a mystery, love is a delight. Therefore I take it as axiomatic that one should settle for nothing less than the infinite mystery and the infinite delight, i.e., God. In fact I demand it. I refuse to settle for anything less. I don?t see why anyone should settle for less than Jacob, who actually grabbed aholt of God and would not let go until God identified himself and blessed him. Q: Grabbed aholt? A: A Louisiana expression. Q: But isn?t the Catholic Church in a mess these days, badly split, its liturgy barbarized, vocations declining? A: Sure. That?s a sign of its divine origins, that it survives these periodic disasters. Q: You don?t act or talk like a Christian. Aren?t they supposed to love one another and do good works? A: Yes. Q: You don?t seem to have much use for your fellowman or do many good works. A: That?s true. I haven?t done a good work in years. Q: In fact, if I may be frank, you strike me as being rather negative in your attitude, cold-blooded, aloof, derisive, self-indulgent, more fond of the beautiful things of this world than of God. A: That?s true. Q: You even seem to take certain satisfaction in the disasters of the twentieth-century and to savor the imminence of world catastrophe rather than world peace, which all religions seek. A: That?s true. Q: You don?t seem to have much use for your fellow Christians, to say nothing of Ku Kluxers, ACLU?ers, northerners, southerners, fem-libbers, anti-fem-libbers, homosexuals, anti-homosexuals, Republicans, Democrats, hippies, anti-hippies, senior citizens. A: That?s true ? though taken as individuals they turn out to be more or less like oneself, i.e., sinners, and we get along fine. Q: Even Ku Kluxers? A: Sure. Q: How do you account for your belief? A: I can only account for it as a gift from God. Q: Why would God make you such a gift when there are others who seem more deserving, that is, serve their fellowman? A: I don?t know. God does strange things. . . . Q: But shouldn?t one?s faith bear some relation to the truth, facts? A: Yes. That?s what attracted me, Christianity?s rather insolent claim to be true, with the implication that other religions are more or less false. Q: You believe that? A: Of course. ? from ?Conversations with Walker Percy? edited by Lewis A. Lawson and Victor A. Kramer University Press of Mississippi, 1985 * * * recent books: *The Root of War is Fear: Thomas Merton's Advice to Peacemakers:* http://jimandnancyforest.com/2016/06/root-of-war-is-fear/ *Loving Our Enemies: Reflections on the Hardest Commandment: * www.jimandnancyforest.com/2014/07/loving-our-enemies/ *Saint Nicholas and the Nine Gold Coins: * www.jimandnancyforest.com/2015/04/saint-nicholas-and-the-nine-gold-coins/ *Books in print*: www.jimandnancyforest.com/books/ *Jim & Nancy web site*: www.jimandnancyforest.com *Photo albums*: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimforest/albums *Facebook*: https://www.facebook.com/jim.forest1 *Jim & Nancy Forest* Kanisstraat 5 / 1811 GJ Alkmaar / The Netherlands * * * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kterrell at stokeswagner.com Fri Oct 28 11:31:55 2016 From: kterrell at stokeswagner.com (Karl M. Terrell) Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 15:31:55 +0000 Subject: [percy-l] Walker Percy Interviews Himself (an extract) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: As someone on this list once said, on the questions of why we like Percy, "The charm of the man." Good example of that here. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 28, 2016, at 6:14 AM, Jim Forest > wrote: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/badcatholic/2011/11/walker-percy-interviews-himself.html#disqus_thread Walker Percy Interviews Himself (an extract) Q: What kind of Catholic are you? A. Bad. Q: Are you a dogmatic Catholic or an open-minded Catholic? A: I don?t know what that means . . . . Do you mean do I believe the dogma that the Catholic Church proposes for belief? Q: Yes. A: Yes. Q: How is such a belief possible in this day and age? A: What else is there? Q: What do you mean, what else is there? There is humanism, atheism, agnosticism, Marxism, behaviorism, materialism, Buddhism, Muhammadanism, Sufism, astrology, occultism, theosophy. A: That?s what I mean. Q: I don?t understand. Would you exclude, for example, scientific humanism as a rational and honorable alternative? A: Yes. Q: Why? A: It?s not good enough. Q: Why not? A: This life is too much trouble, far too strange, to arrive at the end of it and then to be asked what you make of it and have to answer ?Scientific humanism.? That won?t do. A poor show. Life is a mystery, love is a delight. Therefore I take it as axiomatic that one should settle for nothing less than the infinite mystery and the infinite delight, i.e., God. In fact I demand it. I refuse to settle for anything less. I don?t see why anyone should settle for less than Jacob, who actually grabbed aholt of God and would not let go until God identified himself and blessed him. Q: Grabbed aholt? A: A Louisiana expression. Q: But isn?t the Catholic Church in a mess these days, badly split, its liturgy barbarized, vocations declining? A: Sure. That?s a sign of its divine origins, that it survives these periodic disasters. Q: You don?t act or talk like a Christian. Aren?t they supposed to love one another and do good works? A: Yes. Q: You don?t seem to have much use for your fellowman or do many good works. A: That?s true. I haven?t done a good work in years. Q: In fact, if I may be frank, you strike me as being rather negative in your attitude, cold-blooded, aloof, derisive, self-indulgent, more fond of the beautiful things of this world than of God. A: That?s true. Q: You even seem to take certain satisfaction in the disasters of the twentieth-century and to savor the imminence of world catastrophe rather than world peace, which all religions seek. A: That?s true. Q: You don?t seem to have much use for your fellow Christians, to say nothing of Ku Kluxers, ACLU?ers, northerners, southerners, fem-libbers, anti-fem-libbers, homosexuals, anti-homosexuals, Republicans, Democrats, hippies, anti-hippies, senior citizens. A: That?s true ? though taken as individuals they turn out to be more or less like oneself, i.e., sinners, and we get along fine. Q: Even Ku Kluxers? A: Sure. Q: How do you account for your belief? A: I can only account for it as a gift from God. Q: Why would God make you such a gift when there are others who seem more deserving, that is, serve their fellowman? A: I don?t know. God does strange things. . . . Q: But shouldn?t one?s faith bear some relation to the truth, facts? A: Yes. That?s what attracted me, Christianity?s rather insolent claim to be true, with the implication that other religions are more or less false. Q: You believe that? A: Of course. ? from ?Conversations with Walker Percy? edited by Lewis A. Lawson and Victor A. 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