From joe.francisco4591 at gmail.com Sun Oct 1 14:33:11 2017 From: joe.francisco4591 at gmail.com (Joseph Francisco) Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2017 14:33:11 -0400 Subject: [percy-l] Percy Statue to be unveiled in Covington, La In-Reply-To: <8DA0549C-FBE4-41C7-89FB-AA2D1B2F6CDC@gmail.com> References: <8DA0549C-FBE4-41C7-89FB-AA2D1B2F6CDC@gmail.com> Message-ID: "Bill Binnings," eh? Sounds an awful lot like a certain Percy protagonist... I've been following this discussion for a while, so I may as well introduce myself: Joe Francisco New Jersey (near Princeton) Future English teacher (hopefully high school) Have read all of WP's works, and the Samway biography. Went to WP Fest 2016 (and it was awesome). Thank you for this discussion board! Hope to make some contributions in the future. On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Henry P. Mills wrote: > Dear Percy-L: > > For those interested, you might enjoy reading this article about a second > bronze statue of Percy that will soon be unveiled -- this one located in > Covington where Percy lived for more than 40 years. > > "Covington's White Linen night celebrates Walker Percy, raises money for > public art fund," > Times-Picayune, Sarah Bonnette, August 28, 2017 > ssf/2017/08/public_art_fund_gets_a_boost_a.html>. > > > > KEY ARTICLE QUOTES > The article presents information about The Covington Public Art Fund and > its goal to establish a Percy statue and to celebrate the arts in > Covington. Key quotes related to the statue and its conception found at the > bottom of the article are as follows: > > "The almost 9-by-4 foot sculpture designed and created by artist Bill > Binnings will be placed permanently in Bogue Falaya Park in central > Covington. Entitled 'Gateway,' it is intended to draw viewers into what was > Percy's life as an award-winning writer?." > > "'It was designed as a philosophical invitation into his world,'" Binnings > said. As viewers step into the doorway, they "'pass into his world, and if > you want to see the whole sculpture, you have to do that'?." > > "The sculpture features a more than 7-foot tall Percy standing in a > doorway. All of his book titles are incised into the bronze framework,... > as is a quote from -'The Moviegoer.?" > > > Bill Binnings is the same sculptor who created the statue of Percy > unveiled in May 2016 at St. Tammany Parish Library, Madisonville La., which > was installed for the centennial of Percy's birth. Photographs and story > about the statue are available at: > madisonville/187678640>. > > The website for the The Covington Public Art Fund is northshorefoundation.org/public-art-for-covington-fund>. > Photograph below by Sarah Bonnette, Times-Picayune. > > Enjoy! > > Henry Mills > Percy-L Administrator > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > * 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: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Sounds an awful lot like a certain Percy protagonist... > > I've been following this discussion for a while, so I may as well introduce myself: > > Joe Francisco > New Jersey (near Princeton) > Future English teacher (hopefully high school) > Have read all of WP's works, and the Samway biography. > Went to WP Fest 2016 (and it was awesome). > > Thank you for this discussion board! Hope to make some contributions in the future. > >> On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Henry P. Mills wrote: >> Dear Percy-L: >> >> For those interested, you might enjoy reading this article about a second bronze statue of Percy that will soon be unveiled -- this one located in Covington where Percy lived for more than 40 years. >> >> "Covington's White Linen night celebrates Walker Percy, raises money for public art fund," >> Times-Picayune, Sarah Bonnette, August 28, 2017 >> . >> >> >> KEY ARTICLE QUOTES >> The article presents information about The Covington Public Art Fund and its goal to establish a Percy statue and to celebrate the arts in Covington. Key quotes related to the statue and its conception found at the bottom of the article are as follows: >> >> "The almost 9-by-4 foot sculpture designed and created by artist Bill Binnings will be placed permanently in Bogue Falaya Park in central Covington. Entitled 'Gateway,' it is intended to draw viewers into what was Percy's life as an award-winning writer?." >> >> "'It was designed as a philosophical invitation into his world,'" Binnings said. As viewers step into the doorway, they "'pass into his world, and if you want to see the whole sculpture, you have to do that'?." >> >> "The sculpture features a more than 7-foot tall Percy standing in a doorway. All of his book titles are incised into the bronze framework,... as is a quote from -'The Moviegoer.?" >> >> >> Bill Binnings is the same sculptor who created the statue of Percy unveiled in May 2016 at St. Tammany Parish Library, Madisonville La., which was installed for the centennial of Percy's birth. Photographs and story about the statue are available at: >> . >> >> The website for the The Covington Public Art Fund is . >> Photograph below by Sarah Bonnette, Times-Picayune. >> >> Enjoy! >> >> Henry Mills >> Percy-L Administrator >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> * 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 jhforest at gmail.com Mon Oct 2 04:41:31 2017 From: jhforest at gmail.com (Jim Forest) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 10:41:31 +0200 Subject: [percy-l] inquiry In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: There is a Wikipedia entry that you will find helpful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Knox There is also a Ronald Knox Society in North America: http://ronaldknoxsociety.com/priest.html * * * On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 9:28 PM, Lauren Stacy Berdy < lauren.stacy.berdy at gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Percy-L, > > I have an inquiry and I don't live in a world that speaks to it. > > I recently read that > > *evangelicalism is "the religion of enthusiasm'* > > I Thought THAT WAS SOMETHING ELSE, IT SAID SO MUCH TO ME AS A HUMAN > LIVING IN "THESE DREAD LATER DAYS "LIVING IN THESE UNITED STATES > > anyway the person who said this was named > > *Ronald Knox,* a mischievous soul in the catholic church, a thinker, who > seems to see us up close. ........ He also wrote and excellent little > book on D.H. Lawrence. > > what I was wondering if anyone has heard of this man? > > and > > if you knew what I could read that would signify? > > Thank you again for this portal to you, > > Lauren Stacy Berdy > > ( I often wonder what would Percy write these day, don't you?) > > Also are you not so very thankful for Mr. Jon Meacham presence among the > TV talkers? > > > > > > > * 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 > > -- due out in November: *At Play in the Lions' Den: a biography and memoir of Daniel Berrigan* http://jimandnancyforest.com/2017/06/daniel-berrigan-bio/ winner of the International Thomas Merton Society?s ?Louie? award: *The Root of War is Fear: Thomas Merton's Advice to Peacemakers * http://jimandnancyforest.com/2016/06/root-of-war-is-fear/ *books in print: *http://jimandnancyforest.com/books/ *web site: *https://www.jimandnancyforest.com *photos: *https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimforest/albums/ *Amazon author page*: https://www.amazon.com/author/jimforest -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lauren.stacy.berdy at gmail.com Mon Oct 2 08:59:21 2017 From: lauren.stacy.berdy at gmail.com (Lauren Berdy) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 08:59:21 -0400 Subject: [percy-l] inquiry In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <59d23830.685ab00a.4b0f6.5be6@mx.google.com> Thank you I believe His essence has been lost to time -----Original Message----- From: "Jim Forest" Sent: ?10/?2/?2017 4:42 AM To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" Subject: Re: [percy-l] inquiry There is a Wikipedia entry that you will find helpful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Knox There is also a Ronald Knox Society in North America: http://ronaldknoxsociety.com/priest.html * * * On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 9:28 PM, Lauren Stacy Berdy wrote: Dear Percy-L, I have an inquiry and I don't live in a world that speaks to it. I recently read that evangelicalism is "the religion of enthusiasm' I Thought THAT WAS SOMETHING ELSE, IT SAID SO MUCH TO ME AS A HUMAN LIVING IN "THESE DREAD LATER DAYS "LIVING IN THESE UNITED STATES anyway the person who said this was named Ronald Knox, a mischievous soul in the catholic church, a thinker, who seems to see us up close. ........ He also wrote and excellent little book on D.H. Lawrence. what I was wondering if anyone has heard of this man? and if you knew what I could read that would signify? Thank you again for this portal to you, Lauren Stacy Berdy ( I often wonder what would Percy write these day, don't you?) Also are you not so very thankful for Mr. Jon Meacham presence among the TV talkers? * 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 -- due out in November: At Play in the Lions' Den: a biography and memoir of Daniel Berrigan http://jimandnancyforest.com/2017/06/daniel-berrigan-bio/ winner of the International Thomas Merton Society?s ?Louie? award: The Root of War is Fear: Thomas Merton's Advice to Peacemakers http://jimandnancyforest.com/2016/06/root-of-war-is-fear/ books in print: http://jimandnancyforest.com/books/ web site: https://www.jimandnancyforest.com photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimforest/albums/ Amazon author page: https://www.amazon.com/author/jimforest -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wppdirector at gmail.com Sun Oct 29 05:27:58 2017 From: wppdirector at gmail.com (Henry P. Mills) Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 05:27:58 -0400 Subject: [percy-l] Announcement: Photographic Exhibition inspired by The Moviegoer, by Jared Ragland, viewable online (The Oxford-American) Message-ID: <763BC3C6-B184-484F-968A-F29A0FC0765B@gmail.com> Dear Percy-L, Though this online photographic exhibition inspired by The Moviegoer appeared in the January 2016 feature series "Eyes on the South" of The Oxford-American, I thought I would send its description and images on through to the Percy-L community for member enjoyment and Percy Project archiving. The exhibit, entitled Everything is Going to Be All Right, features 21 black-and-white (and in some cases artistically-rendered) images with captions viewable through its slideshow presentation. View the exhibition, clicking on any image to open the slideshow, at: >. Please do "any or all" feel free to comment before the community on which image may speak best to you about the MG, its themes, or the New Orleans of its time. Enjoy! Best Percy wishes, Henry Mills Percy-L Administrator Exhibition Title Everything is Going to Be All Right, by Jared Ragland, is a photographic meditation on Walker Percy's classic novel of New Orleans, The Moviegoer. Description: Everything is Going to Be All Right, by Jared Ragland, is a photographic meditation on Walker Percy's classic novel of New Orleans, The Moviegoer. The series documents a distressed urban landscape and imagines an era of the city's history when single-screen movie theaters dotted New Orleans. Combining traditionally made black-and-white photographs with appropriated imagery, Everything is Going to be All Right -- which was originally featured in "Eyes on the South" in 2014 -- conveys the artist's personal search for meaning amid feelings of loss, isolation, alienation, and malaise. Ragland is Binx Bolling with a camera. - - - - - - - - - - Further Information about the "Eyes of the South" Series and The Oxford-American "Eyes of the South" is a weekly photography series featuring selections of current work from Southern artists or artists whose work concerns the South as published by The Oxford-American. The Oxford American is a nonprofit, quarterly literary magazine dedicated to featuring the best in Southern writing while documenting the complexity and vitality of the American South. View its website at > to learn more about its well-produced writings, fiction, and literary commentary. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From larsonovic at gmail.com Sun Oct 29 22:11:02 2017 From: larsonovic at gmail.com (Michael Larson) Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 21:11:02 -0500 Subject: [percy-l] The Skystillers Message-ID: Greetings, all. When I was in my twenties, I read all of Walker Percy's novels. I was so impressed that I named my first and only son after him. My son, Walker, has now just published his first novel, *The Skystillers*. I would say that it is very like a Percy novel in that it is beautifully written, that it allows its characters to grapple with big questions, and that it has a more-than-passing interest in science. If you have the time and/or interest, check it out here . And if you like it, please consider giving it a review on Amazon. Thanks much, and happy reading. Mike Larson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: