From bpfhutz at comcast.net Mon May 1 14:28:03 2017 From: bpfhutz at comcast.net (Barbara) Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 18:28:03 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [percy-l] Query In-Reply-To: <852739480.21413760.1493663181315.JavaMail.zimbra@comcast.net> Message-ID: <1827980641.21415355.1493663283442.JavaMail.zimbra@comcast.net> What is the source of the line,"My name is Increase" in The Moviegoer? Is this a quote? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pharmboycu at yahoo.com Mon May 1 14:49:18 2017 From: pharmboycu at yahoo.com (Dr. John Creech, Jr.) Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 18:49:18 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [percy-l] Query References: <201711472.1730566.1493664558667.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <201711472.1730566.1493664558667@mail.yahoo.com> Perhaps that's a reference to Increase Mather? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Increase_Mather John -------------------------------------------- On Mon, 5/1/17, Barbara wrote: Subject: [percy-l] Query To: "Walker Listserv Percy" Date: Monday, May 1, 2017, 2:28 PM What is the source of the line,"My name is Increase" in The Moviegoer? ?Is this a quote?* 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 padraig at well.com Mon May 1 14:56:52 2017 From: padraig at well.com (Patrick Lynch) Date: Mon, 01 May 2017 11:56:52 -0700 Subject: [percy-l] Query In-Reply-To: <1827980641.21415355.1493663283442.JavaMail.zimbra@comcast.net> References: <1827980641.21415355.1493663283442.JavaMail.zimbra@comcast.net> Message-ID: <590784F4.5020303@well.com> I have always seen it as a reference to the biblical quote: "My name is Legion." (Mark 5:9). Patrick > Barbara > May 1, 2017 at 11:28 AM > > What is the source of the line,"My name is Increase" in The Moviegoer? > Is this a quote? > * 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 padraig at well.com Mon May 1 14:56:52 2017 From: padraig at well.com (Patrick Lynch) Date: Mon, 01 May 2017 11:56:52 -0700 Subject: [percy-l] Query In-Reply-To: <1827980641.21415355.1493663283442.JavaMail.zimbra@comcast.net> References: <1827980641.21415355.1493663283442.JavaMail.zimbra@comcast.net> Message-ID: <590784F4.5020303@well.com> I have always seen it as a reference to the biblical quote: "My name is Legion." (Mark 5:9). Patrick > Barbara > May 1, 2017 at 11:28 AM > > What is the source of the line,"My name is Increase" in The Moviegoer? > Is this a quote? > * 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 rhonda_mcdonnell at msn.com Mon May 1 17:37:42 2017 From: rhonda_mcdonnell at msn.com (RHONDA MCDONNELL) Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 21:37:42 +0000 Subject: [percy-l] Query In-Reply-To: <201711472.1730566.1493664558667@mail.yahoo.com> References: <201711472.1730566.1493664558667.ref@mail.yahoo.com>, <201711472.1730566.1493664558667@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: I've always thought it was a reference to the Gadarene swine (Luke 8:26-39). Sent from my iPhone > On May 1, 2017, at 11:53 AM, Dr. John Creech, Jr. via Percy-L wrote: > > Perhaps that's a reference to Increase Mather? > > > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Increase_Mather > > > > > > John > > -------------------------------------------- > On Mon, 5/1/17, Barbara wrote: > > Subject: [percy-l] Query > To: "Walker Listserv Percy" > Date: Monday, May 1, 2017, 2:28 PM > > > What is the source of the line,"My name is > Increase" in The Moviegoer? Is this a > quote?* 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 > > * 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 rhonda_mcdonnell at msn.com Mon May 1 19:40:59 2017 From: rhonda_mcdonnell at msn.com (RHONDA MCDONNELL) Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 23:40:59 +0000 Subject: [percy-l] Query In-Reply-To: <590784F4.5020303@well.com> References: <1827980641.21415355.1493663283442.JavaMail.zimbra@comcast.net>, <590784F4.5020303@well.com> Message-ID: Patrick, same episode different gospel--looks like we are on the same page. Sent from my iPhone On May 1, 2017, at 12:05 PM, Patrick Lynch > wrote: I have always seen it as a reference to the biblical quote: "My name is Legion." (Mark 5:9). Patrick Barbara May 1, 2017 at 11:28 AM What is the source of the line,"My name is Increase" in The Moviegoer? Is this a quote? * 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 * 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 rhonda_mcdonnell at msn.com Mon May 1 17:37:42 2017 From: rhonda_mcdonnell at msn.com (RHONDA MCDONNELL) Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 21:37:42 +0000 Subject: [percy-l] Query In-Reply-To: <201711472.1730566.1493664558667@mail.yahoo.com> References: <201711472.1730566.1493664558667.ref@mail.yahoo.com>, <201711472.1730566.1493664558667@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: I've always thought it was a reference to the Gadarene swine (Luke 8:26-39). Sent from my iPhone > On May 1, 2017, at 11:53 AM, Dr. John Creech, Jr. via Percy-L wrote: > > Perhaps that's a reference to Increase Mather? > > > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Increase_Mather > > > > > > John > > -------------------------------------------- > On Mon, 5/1/17, Barbara wrote: > > Subject: [percy-l] Query > To: "Walker Listserv Percy" > Date: Monday, May 1, 2017, 2:28 PM > > > What is the source of the line,"My name is > Increase" in The Moviegoer? Is this a > quote?* 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 > > * 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 rhonda_mcdonnell at msn.com Mon May 1 19:40:59 2017 From: rhonda_mcdonnell at msn.com (RHONDA MCDONNELL) Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 23:40:59 +0000 Subject: [percy-l] Query In-Reply-To: <590784F4.5020303@well.com> References: <1827980641.21415355.1493663283442.JavaMail.zimbra@comcast.net>, <590784F4.5020303@well.com> Message-ID: Patrick, same episode different gospel--looks like we are on the same page. Sent from my iPhone On May 1, 2017, at 12:05 PM, Patrick Lynch > wrote: I have always seen it as a reference to the biblical quote: "My name is Legion." (Mark 5:9). Patrick Barbara May 1, 2017 at 11:28 AM What is the source of the line,"My name is Increase" in The Moviegoer? Is this a quote? * 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 * 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 kareyperkins at gmail.com Fri May 12 13:08:53 2017 From: kareyperkins at gmail.com (Karey Perkins) Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 13:08:53 -0400 Subject: [percy-l] CFP on Walker Percy for November 2017 SAMLA conference In-Reply-To: <201711472.1730566.1493664558667@mail.yahoo.com> References: <201711472.1730566.1493664558667.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <201711472.1730566.1493664558667@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <2ECAC5E9-DA2A-4E57-9C77-1FE236A1A5C9@gmail.com> Calling all Percy experts, critics, fans, lovers - The 2017 South Atlantic Modern Language Association is in Atlanta, GA, this year, November 3-5, with the theme of high art/low art. Below and attached is my Call for Papers on Walker Percy?s high/low art. One-page abstracts for 20-minute paper presentations are due June 1. We had a great presence at SAMLA in Jacksonville last year for Percy?s Centennial Anniversary! Let?s continue the dialogue! The High and the Low of Walker Percy's Art Chair: Dr. Karey Perkins USC - Beaufort kareyperkins at gmail.com Percy's practice and thoughts on art - and the human experience - range from high to low, from immanence to transcendence. Was Percy's philosophy an abstracted high art and his fiction, a low art, for conveying the same message, but in the humble context of physical life? Percy's first novel, The Moviegoer, talked of the low art of movies (as they were considered during his time) as escape, but also serving a higher purpose of self-realization. He writes of the movie magazine as the "low slick." But the Moviegoer ends with the high art of the church, a conduit for the divine. Percy wrote of the orbit and re-entry of the artist, going from high to low. And he draws both the high and the low of the human psyche, from angelism to bestialism, as extremes, both lacking. Sometimes high art is used for low and quite practical purposes. In Love in the Ruins, Thomas More uses the statue of Archangel Michael?s sword to jimmy a lock. How does Percy use the sacred and make it profane - or how does the profane become sacred in Percy?s works? How is Percy transcending and breaking boundaries between high and low art? How do his interviews reveal his intentions and attitudes toward art, his art in particular? Send 300-word or one-page abstracts with your name, affiliation, and email to Dr. Karey Perkins, USC-Beaufort, at kareyperkins at gmail.com. Dr. Karey Perkins Karey L. Perkins, M.A.T., M.A., Ph.D. English Department USC-Beaufort, Bluffton, SC 29910 Research Member Peirce Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409 kareyperkins at gmail.com kareyp at uscb.edu 404-513-1460 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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One-page abstracts for 20-minute paper presentations are due June 1. We had a great presence at SAMLA in Jacksonville last year for Percy?s Centennial Anniversary! Let?s continue the dialogue! The High and the Low of Walker Percy's Art Chair: Dr. Karey Perkins USC - Beaufort kareyperkins at gmail.com Percy's practice and thoughts on art - and the human experience - range from high to low, from immanence to transcendence. Was Percy's philosophy an abstracted high art and his fiction, a low art, for conveying the same message, but in the humble context of physical life? Percy's first novel, The Moviegoer, talked of the low art of movies (as they were considered during his time) as escape, but also serving a higher purpose of self-realization. He writes of the movie magazine as the "low slick." But the Moviegoer ends with the high art of the church, a conduit for the divine. Percy wrote of the orbit and re-entry of the artist, going from high to low. And he draws both the high and the low of the human psyche, from angelism to bestialism, as extremes, both lacking. Sometimes high art is used for low and quite practical purposes. In Love in the Ruins, Thomas More uses the statue of Archangel Michael?s sword to jimmy a lock. How does Percy use the sacred and make it profane - or how does the profane become sacred in Percy?s works? How is Percy transcending and breaking boundaries between high and low art? How do his interviews reveal his intentions and attitudes toward art, his art in particular? Send 300-word or one-page abstracts with your name, affiliation, and email to Dr. Karey Perkins, USC-Beaufort, at kareyperkins at gmail.com. Dr. Karey Perkins Karey L. Perkins, M.A.T., M.A., Ph.D. English Department USC-Beaufort, Bluffton, SC 29910 Research Member Peirce Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409 kareyperkins at gmail.com kareyp at uscb.edu 404-513-1460 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: The High and the Low of Walker Percy.docx Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document Size: 79990 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wppdirector at gmail.com Mon May 22 22:51:48 2017 From: wppdirector at gmail.com (Henry P. 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