[percy-l] another great podcast

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Tue Jun 29 16:52:18 EDT 2021



In thinking about Janet’s and Rhonda’s comments about Percy and Dostoyevsky, I was reminded of my own experience.  As I suppose many of us who are not academics did, I read Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace and Anna Karenina in the days of my youth, and not since.  Three years ago, for no reason I can actually discern, I picked Crime and Punishment off the shelf to take with me on a business trip.  I was overwhelmed.  Surely the book I read in 1970 as a junior in college, playing softball and drinking beer, was not the same book I was reading at 10:30 P.M. in a room at the Parker House Hotel on Tremont Street in Boston?  Of course, it was exactly the same book.  I was just not the same person.  Since that shock, I have done the same thing with titles such as Brideshead Revisited, Jude the Obscure, The Magic Mountain, Ulysses, Catcher in the Rye, and a couple others, some after an absence of fifty years, some after an absence of only half that much.  In every case, the rewards were massive.

I pretty much have Percy, along with Virgil, Dante and Eliot, on “regular repeat,” and I still find something new in them every time.  I suppose Percy would call it a rotation or a repetition—as much as I love the novels, some of those things still confuse me, thereby proving I am not nearly as smart as I think I am.

So thanks to Janet and Rhonda for reminding me, and surely others, of the joys of drawing water from familiar wells!  

Chuck Lowry
Brooklyn, New York

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> On Jun 29, 2021, at 2:14 PM, RHONDA MCDONNELL <rhonda_mcdonnell at msn.com> wrote:
>  How wonderful!! I’ll definitely give it a listen. I have Wilson’s book on Percy and Dostoyevsky, but I confess I have not yet read it. Thanks for the reminder,  Janet. 
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> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Jun 29, 2021, at 12:10 PM, janetcantor37--- via Percy-L <percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:
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>> https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/greatbooks-tapes.nationalreview.media/greatbooks-186-06.29.2021.mp3
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>> Jessica Hooten Wilson, great Percy scholar, strikes again.
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>> Here she is interviewed by John Miller about Crime and Punishment in a marvelous half hour full of wonderful insights. I didn't know that Raskolnikov's name had "split" in it and all the ramifications of that image.
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>> I hope this will interest Percy lovers since Dostoyevsky was so much underneath Percy novels.
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>> Janet Cantor
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