From wppdirector at gmail.com Wed Dec 5 12:51:38 2018 From: wppdirector at gmail.com (Henry P. Mills) Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2018 12:51:38 -0500 Subject: [percy-l] A challenge: Can anyone identify these Percy characters and the book in which they appear? Message-ID: <45361AC1-60F6-4704-869B-E8E8E367F282@gmail.com> Dear Percy-L: One of our faithful off-list readers has a nagging Percy question. Can anyone help Norma? "The question is simple: Somewhere in Percy's work, there is a bickering divorced couple, both of them very bright people. Their conversations resemble a fast-paced pingpong game. I seem to recall that they are not the main characters, but I may be wrong on that, given that I haven't read the book in three decades or so. I remember being struck by the man's first name. It seemed as distinctive as the name "Binx" in theMoviegoer. But obviously not as memorable, or at least not to me at the age I am now. Was it "Sully," by any chance? That would at least explain why I'm thinking about the name now. If not, do you recall the accurate name?? Please feel free to offer any clues to our listserv community or directly to me. All best, Henry Mills Percy-L Administrator wppdirector at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From joe.francisco4591 at gmail.com Wed Dec 5 13:33:52 2018 From: joe.francisco4591 at gmail.com (Joseph Francisco) Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2018 13:33:52 -0500 Subject: [percy-l] A challenge: Can anyone identify these Percy characters and the book in which they appear? In-Reply-To: <45361AC1-60F6-4704-869B-E8E8E367F282@gmail.com> References: <45361AC1-60F6-4704-869B-E8E8E367F282@gmail.com> Message-ID: Possibly Ally's parents in *The Second Coming*? On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 12:51 PM Henry P. Mills wrote: > Dear Percy-L: > > One of our faithful off-list readers has a nagging Percy question. Can > anyone help Norma? > > "The question is simple: Somewhere in Percy's work, there is a bickering > divorced couple, both of them very bright people. Their conversations > resemble a fast-paced pingpong game. I seem to recall that they are not the > main characters, but I may be wrong on that, given that I haven't read the > book in three decades or so. I remember being struck by the man's first > name. It seemed as distinctive as the name "Binx" in the*Moviegoer*. But > obviously not as memorable, or at least not to me at the age I am now. Was > it "Sully," by any chance? That would at least explain why I'm thinking > about the name now. If not, do you recall the accurate name?? > > Please feel free to offer any clues to our listserv community or directly > to me. > > All best, > > Henry Mills > Percy-L Administrator > wppdirector at gmail.com > > > * 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 Thu Dec 6 10:31:03 2018 From: lauren.stacy.berdy at gmail.com (Lauren Berdy) Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 10:31:03 -0500 Subject: [percy-l] A challenge: Can anyone identify these Percy characters and the book in which they appear? In-Reply-To: References: <45361AC1-60F6-4704-869B-E8E8E367F282@gmail.com> Message-ID: <0866223D-7A3B-4DCD-8670-269D23C7B57C@gmail.com> Who trust memory??? Perhaps Ted Tennis? LITR patient of Dr More Comes to him lacking sexual energy Wanting an artificial performance fix Dr More directs him to take his Own outward bound getting outside of his comfortable cul de sac A rotation ensues A tangled messy uncharted path on foot Back home exhausted to wife and into her arms forgetting his suck of self And? Those beginning fumes of divorce Are no longer his predicament Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 5, 2018, at 1:33 PM, Joseph Francisco wrote: > > Possibly Ally's parents in The Second Coming? > >> On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 12:51 PM Henry P. Mills wrote: >> Dear Percy-L: >> >> One of our faithful off-list readers has a nagging Percy question. Can anyone help Norma? >> >> "The question is simple: Somewhere in Percy's work, there is a bickering divorced couple, both of them very bright people. Their conversations resemble a fast-paced pingpong game. I seem to recall that they are not the main characters, but I may be wrong on that, given that I haven't read the book in three decades or so. I remember being struck by the man's first name. It seemed as distinctive as the name "Binx" in theMoviegoer. But obviously not as memorable, or at least not to me at the age I am now. Was it "Sully," by any chance? That would at least explain why I'm thinking about the name now. If not, do you recall the accurate name?? >> >> Please feel free to offer any clues to our listserv community or directly to me. >> >> All best, >> >> Henry Mills >> Percy-L Administrator >> wppdirector at gmail.com >> >> >> * 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 honeyjbc at gmail.com Mon Dec 10 11:02:14 2018 From: honeyjbc at gmail.com (janetcantor37@yahoo.com) Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 16:02:14 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [percy-l] An article in NR online In-Reply-To: <2075594496.1618093.1544457694272@mail.yahoo.com> References: <832306380.1035044.1544317185892.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <832306380.1035044.1544317185892@mail.yahoo.com> <0C687638-CC06-4523-8CCF-E58DDBC00388@henrymills.info> <557923346.1480874.1544443366111@mail.yahoo.com> <2075594496.1618093.1544457694272@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <603092718.1627789.1544457734730@mail.yahoo.com> I saw this and thought it might be of interest to Percy List followers: BOOKS Two Ladies of the Southern Pantheon: Flannery O?Connor and Caroline Gordon ?? By?STEPHEN MIRARCHI - December 8, 2018 6:30 AM - - - - - (Book cover via Amazon/Background: Pixabay)Newly released letters between the writers chronicle marital woes, mystical insights, and excellent editing advice. The Southern Catholic literary pantheon may have a new elder stateswoman enshrined soon, if Christine Flanagan has anything to say about it. Associate professor of English at Philadelphia?s University of the Sciences, Flanagan is the editor of the recently released?Letters of Flannery O?Connor and Caroline Gordon, published by the University of Georgia Press. While O?Connor?s status as the preeminent author of Southern Catholic literature won?t be changing anytime soon, Flanagan has given us many reasons to believe that Gordon helped get her there. Indeed, Flanagan makes a sensible case that Gordon?s own fiction ? long considered second fiddle to the works of O?Connor, Walker Percy, and other Southern Catholic mavens ? deserves a fresh valuation. Objective, detailed, and downright polite, Flanagan never comes right out and makes any of these claims explicitly. In printing the letters and providing enlightening headnotes for each, her approach is for the most part refreshingly free of ideology, especially for an academic book. It reads more like Arthur Hobson Quinn ? 70 years later, still the definitive biographer of Poe ? than any critical theory flavor-of-the-month selection. This method will serve Flanagan well, as O?Connor scholars tend to be the types who can quote Aquinas?s?Summa?at will (as O?Connor herself did) or Bakhtin?s theory of the ?once-occurrent Being-as-event? ? they rarely suffer philosophical dabblers. Flanagan does, however, draw evidence-based conclusions and make appropriate judgments, just as Paul Elie did in his influential historiographical omnibus on O?Connor, Dorothy Day, et al. in?The Life You Save May Be Your Own. Acknowledging Elie, Flanagan uses the method he popularized in that book: In her headnotes, she places primary and secondary source materials about both women that provide historical perspective as well as biographical and literary context. This helps readers understand the interactions between the writers and the many facets of their developing relationship. What we have, then, is not just a collection of letters, which would be valuable in and of itself as only six of the 100-plus here have been previously published in full, but an academically rendered narrative of just how those letters unfolded in Gordon?s and O?Connor?s careers and personal lives.? And that, alas, is where things get messy for Gordon. One reason that Gordon?s full letters to O?Connor haven?t seen the light of day until now, Flanagan delicately implies, is that they detail, from the embattled wife?s perspective, Gordon?s marital problems. Gordon?s longtime husband, Allen Tate, one of the most prominent names in early- to mid-20th-century American literature and criticism, apparently cheated on Gordon regularly; got drunk even more regularly; hid his financial expenditures and left them behind for Gordon to pay as he traipsed overseas; and in later years tended to treat his speaking and teaching obligations more as invitations to Gatsby-style soir?es than as opportunities to publish (which might?ve helped him pay off some of his family?s obligations). Reading of Gordon?s obvious grief and profound desolation over these indiscretions (and not one, but two divorces from Tate) is difficult, especially as Gordon attempts to deal with them by taking on excessive work and staying busy. O?Connor summed it up with her typical Southern politeness: ?What that woman has is Vitality.? The letters tell of no mere psychological drama, however. Having exhausted natural or reasonable means of healing, Gordon was convinced that something diabolical was afoot: ?I am convinced that [Allen?s] enemy is supernatural and that only supernatural help can save [him].? O?Connor remarked to a mutual friend: ?It doesn?t look like you can do anything for them but pray.? Not surprisingly, in the particularly troubling times of Gordon?s marriage, O?Connor found Gordon?s advice on her work somewhat unreliable. When Tate and Gordon had separated in the fall of 1958, for instance, Gordon wrote an essay about O?Connor?s novel?Wise Blood?that ?made significant errors.? O?Connor, says Flanagan, ?struggled to navigate her response to Gordon?s mistakes.? More significantly, Flanagan ? again with a light touch ? hints that Gordon?s marital unrest might help explain one of the big mysteries facing O?Connor scholars: Whatever happened to Gordon?s letters about O?Connor?s masterpiece,?The Violent Bear It Away? To date, they haven?t been located, and we have evidence that O?Connor sought others? advice in revising that mysteriously entrancing book. As Flanagan puts it, O?Connor thought Gordon?s ?support? for the novel ?rang false.? Flanagan contextualizes this flagging enthusiasm by detailing another failure of Gordon?s just a month previous: She had seriously botched her introduction to the French edition of?Wise Blood, to the point where O?Connor herself severely revised it. ?I hope this won?t be the straw that broke the camel?s back,? wrote O?Connor to a friend, wondering whether her drastic cut of Gordon?s introduction would damage their relationship. The extreme strain Gordon was experiencing because of her marital unrest had deeply affected her literary and critical judgment. Still, O?Connor stood by Gordon, through letters and prayer, despite O?Connor?s own deteriorating health. One of O?Connor?s most literary and engaging correspondents, Elizabeth Hester (known to many of O?Connor?s readers by the pseudonym ?A.?) at one point got frustrated with Gordon. Flanagan writes: When Hester continued to criticize Gordon in her letters, O?Connor agreed ? ?Caroline is wildly mixed up? ? but she defended Gordon once again: ?The harshness with which you speak of Caroline is not justified.? Flanagan is exactly right to quote these lines, but I wish she had gone just a bit further, as the subsequent lines in O?Connor?s original letter are some of the most spiritually and relationally enlightening in all of O?Connor?s corpus: . . . is not justified. She may be basically irreligious but we are not judged by what we are basically. We are judged by how hard we use what we have been given. Success means nothing to the Lord, nor gracefulness. She tries and tries violently and has a great deal to struggle against and to overcome. The violent bear it away. Especially in light of this new volume of letters ? in which we read page after page of Gordon?s admiration for Catholic churches in Rome; her dating of letters with the Catholic saint or feast of the day; her constant requests for intercessory prayer and promises of prayers for others ? O?Connor?s assessment of her friend as ?basically irreligious? strikes the reader with nothing less than mystical force. How in the world did O?Connor see that Gordon ? who clearly admired the Church, thought of herself as an orthodox believer, and often attended daily Masses, among other things ? was in fact what we might call a practical spiritualist? In other words, was Gordon someone who intellectually admired the rituals and culture of the Church without actually integrating them into her whole existence, body and soul? This ratification of O?Connor?s unusual spiritual vision is part of the great value of this volume for O?Connor scholars and enthusiasts. About a decade ago, Lorraine Murray?s?Abbess of Andalusia?posited that O?Connor had embraced an ordinary vocation with extraordinary holiness. Free of pietism and deftly argued, the book made some surprising moves ? arguing, for instance, that O?Connor gradually, not immediately, grew to embrace the full implications of black civil rights. Not the least of Murray?s eye-opening insights was that O?Connor may have had a gift for reading souls. Intriguing then, Murray?s proposition seems downright convincing now, especially in light of O?Connor?s high praise of an ?irreligious? Gordon. I don?t mean to imply that this book is all Southern drama, or now irrefutable proof of O?Connor?s cause for canonization. While it may be those things, it is also flat-out funny in parts, as one has every right to expect of two learned Southern ladies who understand each other and their culture, and who craft stories to shake up their indolent readers. Advising O?Connor to move the most important element of a sentence to the end, where it will remain in a reader?s memory, Gordon reminds her that the reader is ?the laziest and stupidest of God?s creatures.? In another place, Gordon recounts a harrowing car ride when a priest was driving. O?Connor?s response is one of her typically cheeky, drawling maxims: ?Never ride with the clergy if you are not immediately ready to meet your maker.? COMMENTS With all that Flanagan?s volume has to offer, one can be only more excited about the upcoming?Good Things out of Nazareth: The Uncollected Letters of Flannery O?Connor and Friends, edited by Southern-literature expert Benjamin Alexander. Expected late next year, the book promises an intimate view of those O?Connor brought even more closely into her confidences. In the meantime, Flanagan?s extensive research and graceful, detailed notes will give O?Connor fans of all stripes new material on which to ruminate ? and it may just inspire a few professors to add Gordon?s?Malefactors?to their American literature syllabi. STEPHEN MIRARCHI ? Stephen Mirarchi is an assistant professor of English at Benedictine College. He is the author of three annotated editions of Myles Connolly?s works, including?Mr. Blue. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marcus at loyno.edu Mon Dec 10 11:49:38 2018 From: marcus at loyno.edu (Marcus Smith) Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 11:49:38 -0500 Subject: [percy-l] Percy-L Digest, Vol 143, Issue 2 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ?now irrefutable proof of O?Connor?s cause for canonization?? This line seems tongue in cheek, but is this idea really being pushed by anyone? Can we offer O?Connor?s fictions as the obligatory miracles? O?Connor will probably appear at the hearing to be her own Devil?s Advocate! On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 11:02 AM wrote: > Send Percy-L mailing list submissions to > percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/percy-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > percy-l-request at lists.ibiblio.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > percy-l-owner at lists.ibiblio.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Percy-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. An article in NR online (janetcantor37 at yahoo.com) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 16:02:14 +0000 (UTC) > From: "janetcantor37 at yahoo.com" > To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" > > Subject: [percy-l] An article in NR online > Message-ID: <603092718.1627789.1544457734730 at mail.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > I saw this and thought it might be of interest to Percy List followers: > BOOKS > Two Ladies of the Southern Pantheon: Flannery O?Connor and Caroline Gordon > ?? > By?STEPHEN MIRARCHI > > - > December 8, 2018 6:30 AM > - > - > - > - > - > (Book cover via Amazon/Background: Pixabay)Newly released letters between > the writers chronicle marital woes, mystical insights, and excellent > editing advice. > The Southern Catholic literary pantheon may have a new elder stateswoman > enshrined soon, if Christine Flanagan has anything to say about it. > > Associate professor of English at Philadelphia?s University of the > Sciences, Flanagan is the editor of the recently released?Letters of > Flannery O?Connor and Caroline Gordon, published by the University of > Georgia Press. While O?Connor?s status as the preeminent author of Southern > Catholic literature won?t be changing anytime soon, Flanagan has given us > many reasons to believe that Gordon helped get her there. Indeed, Flanagan > makes a sensible case that Gordon?s own fiction ? long considered second > fiddle to the works of O?Connor, Walker Percy, and other Southern Catholic > mavens ? deserves a fresh valuation. > > > > Objective, detailed, and downright polite, Flanagan never comes right out > and makes any of these claims explicitly. In printing the letters and > providing enlightening headnotes for each, her approach is for the most > part refreshingly free of ideology, especially for an academic book. It > reads more like Arthur Hobson Quinn ? 70 years later, still the definitive > biographer of Poe ? than any critical theory flavor-of-the-month selection. > This method will serve Flanagan well, as O?Connor scholars tend to be the > types who can quote Aquinas?s?Summa?at will (as O?Connor herself did) or > Bakhtin?s theory of the ?once-occurrent Being-as-event? ? they rarely > suffer philosophical dabblers. > > Flanagan does, however, draw evidence-based conclusions and make > appropriate judgments, just as Paul Elie did in his influential > historiographical omnibus on O?Connor, Dorothy Day, et al. in?The Life You > Save May Be Your Own. Acknowledging Elie, Flanagan uses the method he > popularized in that book: In her headnotes, she places primary and > secondary source materials about both women that provide historical > perspective as well as biographical and literary context. This helps > readers understand the interactions between the writers and the many facets > of their developing relationship. > > > What we have, then, is not just a collection of letters, which would be > valuable in and of itself as only six of the 100-plus here have been > previously published in full, but an academically rendered narrative of > just how those letters unfolded in Gordon?s and O?Connor?s careers and > personal lives.? > And that, alas, is where things get messy for Gordon. > > One reason that Gordon?s full letters to O?Connor haven?t seen the light > of day until now, Flanagan delicately implies, is that they detail, from > the embattled wife?s perspective, Gordon?s marital problems. Gordon?s > longtime husband, Allen Tate, one of the most prominent names in early- to > mid-20th-century American literature and criticism, apparently cheated on > Gordon regularly; got drunk even more regularly; hid his financial > expenditures and left them behind for Gordon to pay as he traipsed > overseas; and in later years tended to treat his speaking and teaching > obligations more as invitations to Gatsby-style soir?es than as > opportunities to publish (which might?ve helped him pay off some of his > family?s obligations). > > Reading of Gordon?s obvious grief and profound desolation over these > indiscretions (and not one, but two divorces from Tate) is difficult, > especially as Gordon attempts to deal with them by taking on excessive work > and staying busy. O?Connor summed it up with her typical Southern > politeness: ?What that woman has is Vitality.? > > > > > > The letters tell of no mere psychological drama, however. Having exhausted > natural or reasonable means of healing, Gordon was convinced that something > diabolical was afoot: ?I am convinced that [Allen?s] enemy is supernatural > and that only supernatural help can save [him].? O?Connor remarked to a > mutual friend: ?It doesn?t look like you can do anything for them but pray.? > > Not surprisingly, in the particularly troubling times of Gordon?s > marriage, O?Connor found Gordon?s advice on her work somewhat unreliable. > When Tate and Gordon had separated in the fall of 1958, for instance, > Gordon wrote an essay about O?Connor?s novel?Wise Blood?that ?made > significant errors.? O?Connor, says Flanagan, ?struggled to navigate her > response to Gordon?s mistakes.? More significantly, Flanagan ? again with a > light touch ? hints that Gordon?s marital unrest might help explain one of > the big mysteries facing O?Connor scholars: Whatever happened to Gordon?s > letters about O?Connor?s masterpiece,?The Violent Bear It Away? To date, > they haven?t been located, and we have evidence that O?Connor sought > others? advice in revising that mysteriously entrancing book. As Flanagan > puts it, O?Connor thought Gordon?s ?support? for the novel ?rang false.? > Flanagan contextualizes this flagging enthusiasm by detailing another > failure of Gordon?s just a month previous: She had seriously bot > ched her introduction to the French edition of?Wise Blood, to the point > where O?Connor herself severely revised it. ?I hope this won?t be the straw > that broke the camel?s back,? wrote O?Connor to a friend, wondering whether > her drastic cut of Gordon?s introduction would damage their relationship. > The extreme strain Gordon was experiencing because of her marital unrest > had deeply affected her literary and critical judgment. > > Still, O?Connor stood by Gordon, through letters and prayer, despite > O?Connor?s own deteriorating health. One of O?Connor?s most literary and > engaging correspondents, Elizabeth Hester (known to many of O?Connor?s > readers by the pseudonym ?A.?) at one point got frustrated with Gordon. > Flanagan writes: > > > When Hester continued to criticize Gordon in her letters, O?Connor agreed > ? ?Caroline is wildly mixed up? ? but she defended Gordon once again: ?The > harshness with which you speak of Caroline is not justified.? > > > Flanagan is exactly right to quote these lines, but I wish she had gone > just a bit further, as the subsequent lines in O?Connor?s original letter > are some of the most spiritually and relationally enlightening in all of > O?Connor?s corpus: > > > . . . is not justified. She may be basically irreligious but we are not > judged by what we are basically. We are judged by how hard we use what we > have been given. Success means nothing to the Lord, nor gracefulness. She > tries and tries violently and has a great deal to struggle against and to > overcome. The violent bear it away. > > > Especially in light of this new volume of letters ? in which we read page > after page of Gordon?s admiration for Catholic churches in Rome; her dating > of letters with the Catholic saint or feast of the day; her constant > requests for intercessory prayer and promises of prayers for others ? > O?Connor?s assessment of her friend as ?basically irreligious? strikes the > reader with nothing less than mystical force. How in the world did O?Connor > see that Gordon ? who clearly admired the Church, thought of herself as an > orthodox believer, and often attended daily Masses, among other things ? > was in fact what we might call a practical spiritualist? In other words, > was Gordon someone who intellectually admired the rituals and culture of > the Church without actually integrating them into her whole existence, body > and soul? > > This ratification of O?Connor?s unusual spiritual vision is part of the > great value of this volume for O?Connor scholars and enthusiasts. About a > decade ago, Lorraine Murray?s?Abbess of Andalusia?posited that O?Connor had > embraced an ordinary vocation with extraordinary holiness. Free of pietism > and deftly argued, the book made some surprising moves ? arguing, for > instance, that O?Connor gradually, not immediately, grew to embrace the > full implications of black civil rights. Not the least of Murray?s > eye-opening insights was that O?Connor may have had a gift for reading > souls. Intriguing then, Murray?s proposition seems downright convincing > now, especially in light of O?Connor?s high praise of an ?irreligious? > Gordon. > > I don?t mean to imply that this book is all Southern drama, or now > irrefutable proof of O?Connor?s cause for canonization. While it may be > those things, it is also flat-out funny in parts, as one has every right to > expect of two learned Southern ladies who understand each other and their > culture, and who craft stories to shake up their indolent readers. Advising > O?Connor to move the most important element of a sentence to the end, where > it will remain in a reader?s memory, Gordon reminds her that the reader is > ?the laziest and stupidest of God?s creatures.? In another place, Gordon > recounts a harrowing car ride when a priest was driving. O?Connor?s > response is one of her typically cheeky, drawling maxims: ?Never ride with > the clergy if you are not immediately ready to meet your maker.? > > > > > COMMENTS > With all that Flanagan?s volume has to offer, one can be only more excited > about the upcoming?Good Things out of Nazareth: The Uncollected Letters of > Flannery O?Connor and Friends, edited by Southern-literature expert > Benjamin Alexander. Expected late next year, the book promises an intimate > view of those O?Connor brought even more closely into her confidences. > > In the meantime, Flanagan?s extensive research and graceful, detailed > notes will give O?Connor fans of all stripes new material on which to > ruminate ? and it may just inspire a few professors to add > Gordon?s?Malefactors?to their American literature syllabi. > STEPHEN MIRARCHI ? Stephen Mirarchi is an assistant professor of English > at Benedictine College. 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Mills) Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 12:19:22 -0500 Subject: [percy-l] Percy's use of "well" within The Thanatos Syndrome and possible connection to the Bible Message-ID: Dear Percy-L: I forward the below query from long-time community member Janet Cantor. Please do consider responding to the list to her questions, or any related topics that come to mind. Henry Mills Percy-L Administrator > On Dec 11, 2018, at 6:31 AM, Janet Cantor wrote: > > Dr. Mills, > > At the end of Thanatos Syndrome are the words "well, well, well." > > The book spends considerable time with "well"s and their meaning. > > English theologian Julian of Norwich noted that sometimes statements featuring a repetition including "all will be well? are a reference to the Book of Revelation in The Bible. > > Did Percy intentionally make a reference in TS when he put "well, well, well" at the end of this novel? I?m curious what anyone else?s thoughts about this question may be. > > Janet Cantor -- Henry P. Mills Percy-L Administrator The Walker Percy Project, Director www.ibiblio.org/wpercy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wppdirector at gmail.com Fri Dec 21 00:46:59 2018 From: wppdirector at gmail.com (Henry P. Mills) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 00:46:59 -0500 Subject: [percy-l] =?utf-8?q?Podcast=3A_Walker_Percy=E2=80=99s_Faith_And_?= =?utf-8?q?Crisis_Of_Self-Knowledge?= Message-ID: <411CC148-0A0F-4609-B388-542685FB7944@gmail.com> Dear Percy-L: A recent podcast of interest from Federalist Radio Hour. Enjoy! Henry Mills Percy-L Administrator __________ Walker Percy?s Faith And Crisis Of Self-Knowledge On this episode of the Federalist Radio Hour, Ben Domenech interviews Jennifer A. Frey , assistant professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina, on the work and life of Southern writer Walker Percy. They discuss the overlapping themes of his novels, his conversion to Catholicism, and the human desire to know ourselves. "What really interests Walker Percy is how to be an 'Ex-Suicide.' That is to say how to live and love in the ruins,? Frey said. ?To see that we are in the ruins of something and that all of the old values have passed away and nothing interesting has come to replace them?." https://thefederalist.com/2018/12/05/podcast-walker-percys-faith-crisis-self-knowledge/ DECEMBER 5, 2018 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: