From wppdirector at gmail.com Wed Aug 3 13:58:56 2022 From: wppdirector at gmail.com (Henry P. Mills III) Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2022 13:58:56 -0400 Subject: [percy-l] Percy & Hesse (posted for Rhonda McDonnell) Message-ID: Chuck, I confess to also being a bit of a ?lazy" scholar, but one who knows my way around search engines. I checked the Percy collection at UNC-Chapel Hill and found the below reference to Hesse in Percy?s papers. Hope this offers a satisfactory answer to the question of Hesse and Percy. Thanks for bringing Hesse to our attention again, Jonathan, in sending the LIR quotes (and Doug and Lauren for their Hesse discussion)! Best, Rhonda McDonnell On Jul 22, 2022, at 10:00 PM, Jonathan Potter wrote: >*From the ebook version of Love in the a Ruins:* * [images]* >https://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/percy-l/2022-July/002550.html On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 2:51 PM Doug Brown wrote: Michael, > > First, if you were a teenager in the 70s, then you and I are roughly the > same age. I work in technology, so I often find myself surrounded by young > people. I tell them that I am both a time-traveler and immortal. A > time-traveler because I used to live in the 60s and 70s, and now I'm here. > Immortal because ... well ... all the evidence so far indicates so. > > Charles Lowry's answer to your question is more thorough, but I'll add a > vague statement that I know Percy refers to Herman Hesse a couple of times > in Love in the Ruins. Unfortunately, I think both references I'm recalling > are not especially flattering to Hesse. I think the character Tom More (not > necessarily speaking for Percy) thinks of readers of Hesse (but not > necessarily Hesse himself) as being a bit too high-minded. Tom More makes > these kinds of observations once in conversation with his former wife and > once in reference to one half of the attendees at a "Pit" scene where > various psychiatrists present ideas in a somewhat competitive manner. But > it's worth pointing out that the character Tom More is notoriously > unreliable - and a bit grumpy. > > Not much help, but there you go. > > Doug Brown > Walker Percy Loves You and Has a Wonderful Plan for Your Life > > > > On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 3:09 PM Lauren Berdy > wrote: > To a cultured mind no scenery is >> > Ordinary. >> > And >> > Such a mind will prefer solitude in >> > An unassuming landscape. >> > DP lived on the bogue Fayala ( sp) >> > A porous and certain primeval >> > Relaxin and releasing >> > Also >> > He wasn?t scared to meet the >> > Crowd and suck crayfishes either >> > But >> > He wasn?t dipping into orientalists >> > He made fun of them with aunt >> > Emily?s Bagvagita. Too bad >> > Tom Merton and he never >> > Dialogued. >> > Doubt is too >> > catching. >> > Thank you, >> > Lauren >> > >> Sent from my iPhone >> > >> On Mar 20, 2022, at 2:34 PM, lowry.charles at gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> ?I am no scholar, heaven knows, but in my laziness I have developed a >> million labor-saving workarounds. Although it is only a partial and not a >> definitive answer to your question, I can report that Hermann Hesse does >> not appear in the indices of the following books I have on my Percy shelf: >> >> >> ?Jay Tolson?s and Father Samway?s biographies of Percy >> >> ?John F. Desmond?s Walker Percy?s Search for Community >> >> ?Robert Coles? Walker Percy, An American Search >> >> ?Jessica Hooten Wilson?s Reading Walker Percy?s Novels and Walker Percy, >> Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence >> >> ?Lewis A. Lawson?s Following Percy >> >> ?Kieran Quinlan?s Walker Percy, The Last Catholic Novelist >> >> ?Lawson and Kramer, editors, Conversations With Walker Percy >> >> >> Further affiant sayeth naught. >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> >> On Mar 20, 2022, at 12:53 PM, Michael Martin Serafin < >> michael_serafin at hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> ? >> >> When I was a teenager in the 1970s, I was a serious reader of Hermann >> Hesse, the great German author. I learned about Hesse from an encouraging >> essay by Kurt Vonnegut, also a favorite of mine at the time. Did Percy read >> Hesse? >> >> >> Michael Martin Serafin >> >> Chicopee, MA. >> >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rhonda_mcdonnell at msn.com Thu Aug 4 00:44:43 2022 From: rhonda_mcdonnell at msn.com (RHONDA MCDONNELL) Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 04:44:43 +0000 Subject: [percy-l] Percy & Hesse (posted for Rhonda McDonnell) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: From my end it doesn?t look like Henry had any more luck with the image than I did. So to clarify: according to the archives at UNC-Chapel Hill, Percy had a marked up copy of one of Hesse's novels -- Steppenwolf, if I remember correctly. The annotations in it were his, so we do know that's one that he read. One might need to look at the annotations to get a sense of what he thought! Rhonda Get Outlook for iOS ________________________________ From: Percy-L on behalf of Henry P. Mills III Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2022 12:58:56 PM To: Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion Subject: [percy-l] Percy & Hesse (posted for Rhonda McDonnell) Chuck, I confess to also being a bit of a ?lazy" scholar, but one who knows my way around search engines. I checked the Percy collection at UNC-Chapel Hill and found the below reference to Hesse in Percy?s papers. Hope this offers a satisfactory answer to the question of Hesse and Percy. Thanks for bringing Hesse to our attention again, Jonathan, in sending the LIR quotes (and Doug and Lauren for their Hesse discussion)! Best, Rhonda McDonnell [https://mail.google.com/mail/u/2?ui=2&ik=e575c03ba0&attid=0.1.1&permmsgid=msg-f:1739776288078715198&th=1824ed50f794593e&view=fimg&fur=ip&sz=s0-l75-ft&attbid=ANGjdJ8b7mrevwLH0oj5ZwwkOYA4WB_pZf2fruwtbPdMTyqNLmC06P33lmAgE3lFjd3svDW-oTat6vTYdZ3V8YiBM_IXwzWAiSj9J2sNBn7Nu90L1BwAxqAR0hDzAuE&disp=emb] On Jul 22, 2022, at 10:00 PM, Jonathan Potter > wrote: >From the ebook version of Love in the a Ruins: [images] >https://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/percy-l/2022-July/002550.html On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 2:51 PM Doug Brown > wrote: Michael, First, if you were a teenager in the 70s, then you and I are roughly the same age. I work in technology, so I often find myself surrounded by young people. I tell them that I am both a time-traveler and immortal. A time-traveler because I used to live in the 60s and 70s, and now I'm here. Immortal because ... well ... all the evidence so far indicates so. Charles Lowry's answer to your question is more thorough, but I'll add a vague statement that I know Percy refers to Herman Hesse a couple of times in Love in the Ruins. Unfortunately, I think both references I'm recalling are not especially flattering to Hesse. I think the character Tom More (not necessarily speaking for Percy) thinks of readers of Hesse (but not necessarily Hesse himself) as being a bit too high-minded. Tom More makes these kinds of observations once in conversation with his former wife and once in reference to one half of the attendees at a "Pit" scene where various psychiatrists present ideas in a somewhat competitive manner. But it's worth pointing out that the character Tom More is notoriously unreliable - and a bit grumpy. Not much help, but there you go. Doug Brown Walker Percy Loves You and Has a Wonderful Plan for Your Life On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 3:09 PM Lauren Berdy > wrote: To a cultured mind no scenery is Ordinary. And Such a mind will prefer solitude in An unassuming landscape. DP lived on the bogue Fayala ( sp) A porous and certain primeval Relaxin and releasing Also He wasn?t scared to meet the Crowd and suck crayfishes either But He wasn?t dipping into orientalists He made fun of them with aunt Emily?s Bagvagita. Too bad Tom Merton and he never Dialogued. Doubt is too catching. Thank you, Lauren Sent from my iPhone On Mar 20, 2022, at 2:34 PM, lowry.charles at gmail.com wrote: ?I am no scholar, heaven knows, but in my laziness I have developed a million labor-saving workarounds. Although it is only a partial and not a definitive answer to your question, I can report that Hermann Hesse does not appear in the indices of the following books I have on my Percy shelf: ?Jay Tolson?s and Father Samway?s biographies of Percy ?John F. Desmond?s Walker Percy?s Search for Community ?Robert Coles? Walker Percy, An American Search ?Jessica Hooten Wilson?s Reading Walker Percy?s Novels and Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence ?Lewis A. Lawson?s Following Percy ?Kieran Quinlan?s Walker Percy, The Last Catholic Novelist ?Lawson and Kramer, editors, Conversations With Walker Percy Further affiant sayeth naught. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 20, 2022, at 12:53 PM, Michael Martin Serafin > wrote: ? When I was a teenager in the 1970s, I was a serious reader of Hermann Hesse, the great German author. I learned about Hesse from an encouraging essay by Kurt Vonnegut, also a favorite of mine at the time. Did Percy read Hesse? Michael Martin Serafin Chicopee, MA. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wppdirector at gmail.com Thu Aug 4 09:44:14 2022 From: wppdirector at gmail.com (Henry P. Mills III) Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 09:44:14 -0400 Subject: [percy-l] Percy & Hesse (posted for Rhonda McDonnell) - follow-up comment Message-ID: >From my end it doesn?t look like Henry had any more luck with the Hesse catalog image than I did. So to clarify: according to the archives at UNC-Chapel Hill, Percy had a marked-up copy of one of Hesse's novels -- *Steppenwolf*. The annotations in it were Percy's, so we DO know that's a Hesse work he read. One might need to look at his annotations to get a sense of what he thought! Description of the novel: "Steppenwolf is the tenth novel by German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse. Originally published in Germany in 1927, it was first translated into English in 1929. The novel was named after the German name for the steppe wolf. The story in large part reflects a profound crisis in Hesse's spiritual world during the 1920s." (wikipedia) Best wishes, Rhonda [image: Percy-Hesse.png] ------------------------------ *From:* Percy-L: Henry P. Mills III *Sent:* Wednesday, August 3, 2022 12:58:56 PM *To:* Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion < percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org> *Subject:* [percy-l] Percy & Hesse (posted for Rhonda McDonnell) Chuck, I confess to also being a bit of a ?lazy" scholar, but one who knows my way around search engines. I checked the Percy collection at UNC-Chapel Hill and found the below reference to Hesse in Percy?s papers. Hope this offers a satisfactory answer to the question of Hesse and Percy. Thanks for bringing Hesse to our attention again, Jonathan, in sending the LIR quotes (and Doug and Lauren for their Hesse discussion)! Best, Rhonda On Jul 22, 2022, at 10:00 PM, Jonathan Potter wrote: >*From the ebook version of Love in the a Ruins:* * [images]* >https://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/percy-l/2022-July/002550.html On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 2:51 PM Doug Brown wrote: Michael, First, if you were a teenager in the 70s, then you and I are roughly the same age. I work in technology, so I often find myself surrounded by young people. I tell them that I am both a time-traveler and immortal. A time-traveler because I used to live in the 60s and 70s, and now I'm here. Immortal because ... well ... all the evidence so far indicates so. Charles Lowry's answer to your question is more thorough, but I'll add a vague statement that I know Percy refers to Herman Hesse a couple of times in Love in the Ruins. Unfortunately, I think both references I'm recalling are not especially flattering to Hesse. I think the character Tom More (not necessarily speaking for Percy) thinks of readers of Hesse (but not necessarily Hesse himself) as being a bit too high-minded. Tom More makes these kinds of observations once in conversation with his former wife and once in reference to one half of the attendees at a "Pit" scene where various psychiatrists present ideas in a somewhat competitive manner. But it's worth pointing out that the character Tom More is notoriously unreliable - and a bit grumpy. Not much help, but there you go. Doug Brown Walker Percy Loves You and Has a Wonderful Plan for Your Life On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 3:09 PM Lauren Berdy wrote: To a cultured mind no scenery is Ordinary. And Such a mind will prefer solitude in An unassuming landscape. DP lived on the bogue Fayala ( sp) A porous and certain primeval Relaxin and releasing Also He wasn?t scared to meet the Crowd and suck crayfishes either But He wasn?t dipping into orientalists He made fun of them with aunt Emily?s Bagvagita. Too bad Tom Merton and he never Dialogued. Doubt is too catching. Thank you, Lauren Sent from my iPhone On Mar 20, 2022, at 2:34 PM, lowry.charles at gmail.com wrote: ?I am no scholar, heaven knows, but in my laziness I have developed a million labor-saving workarounds. Although it is only a partial and not a definitive answer to your question, I can report that Hermann Hesse does not appear in the indices of the following books I have on my Percy shelf: ?Jay Tolson?s and Father Samway?s biographies of Percy ?John F. Desmond?s Walker Percy?s Search for Community ?Robert Coles? Walker Percy, An American Search ?Jessica Hooten Wilson?s Reading Walker Percy?s Novels and Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence ?Lewis A. Lawson?s Following Percy ?Kieran Quinlan?s Walker Percy, The Last Catholic Novelist ?Lawson and Kramer, editors, Conversations With Walker Percy Further affiant sayeth naught. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 20, 2022, at 12:53 PM, Michael Martin Serafin < michael_serafin at hotmail.com> wrote: ? When I was a teenager in the 1970s, I was a serious reader of Hermann Hesse, the great German author. I learned about Hesse from an encouraging essay by Kurt Vonnegut, also a favorite of mine at the time. Did Percy read Hesse? 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Would anyone else on the list care to share personal remembrances or recollections of Percy, or past visits to his hometown area? (Dave Duty, I?ve always wanted to know more about your long term correspondence with Percy on semiotics and where the collection is housed today so researchers can know about it.) Best Percy regards, Henry Mills Percy-L Administrator ?????????? *On Friendship with Walker Percy* BY FREDERICK STEPHEN ELLIS Judge F. Stephen Ellis is author of the historical book *St. Tammany Parish: L'Autre Cote Du La*c (Pelican: 1981), which includes a foreword by Walker Percy. Ellis' remembrance is dated January 21, 1997, and is an original publication arranged for by The Project. "I first met Walker shortly after I came to Covington in the summer of 1949. He lived in the old Norman place on Military Road, about three miles out from Covington. We would see each other from time to time at parties and other community events. When his first book, "The Moviegoer," came out, it was not considered a big deal locally, even after he won the National Book Award. There were, after all, other published authors in Covington. There was not a bookstore, but Hebert's drug store carried his book, and it was there that I bought my first edition. We got to be good friends in the early to mid-70s, when we mated our miniature schnauzers?" Remembrance continued at: https://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy/remembrances/ellis.html --- Go to directory of all Remembrances -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kterrell at stokeswagner.com Fri Aug 19 22:10:50 2022 From: kterrell at stokeswagner.com (Karl M. Terrell) Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2022 02:10:50 +0000 Subject: [percy-l] "On Friendship with Walker Percy" - A Personal Remembrance by Judge F. Stephen Ellis In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <0AF5BADA-D5BD-4297-890A-2A1AE31EC7AE@stokeswagner.com> What a charming remembrance. I recall reading, elsewhere, that when asked by locals in Covington what he did for a living, his response that he was a writer was met typically with silence. He decided, ultimately, that he would just say: ?Nothing.? ?And they were OK with this.? Sent from my iPhone On Aug 19, 2022, at 7:18 PM, Henry P. Mills III wrote: ? Dear Percy-L community: For those interested in a previously unpublished personal remembrance of Percy, please enjoy this touching recollection penned by longtime Covington resident Judge F. Stephen Ellis, as prepared for The Walker Percy Project. Following the below excerpt is a link to Judge Ellis' full remembrance, as well as one to more remembrances from other close friends of Percy, including Robert Coles. Would anyone else on the list care to share personal remembrances or recollections of Percy, or past visits to his hometown area? (Dave Duty, I?ve always wanted to know more about your long term correspondence with Percy on semiotics and where the collection is housed today so researchers can know about it.) Best Percy regards, Henry Mills Percy-L Administrator ?????????? On Friendship with Walker Percy BY FREDERICK STEPHEN ELLIS Judge F. Stephen Ellis is author of the historical book St. Tammany Parish: L'Autre Cote Du Lac (Pelican: 1981), which includes a foreword by Walker Percy. Ellis' remembrance is dated January 21, 1997, and is an original publication arranged for by The Project. "I first met Walker shortly after I came to Covington in the summer of 1949. He lived in the old Norman place on Military Road, about three miles out from Covington. We would see each other from time to time at parties and other community events. When his first book, "The Moviegoer," came out, it was not considered a big deal locally, even after he won the National Book Award. There were, after all, other published authors in Covington. There was not a bookstore, but Hebert's drug store carried his book, and it was there that I bought my first edition. We got to be good friends in the early to mid-70s, when we mated our miniature schnauzers?" Remembrance continued at: https://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy/remembrances/ellis.html --- Go to directory of all Remembrances ________________________________ This email has been scanned for spam and viruses by Proofpoint Essentials. 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I wish I could add to the recollections of him. My only one is in the form of a well-remembered dream that came to me about the time that Ken Ketner, Karey Perkins, and I were finishing up editing on Percy?s Symbol and Existence. In the dream I showed up at his place in Covington, which I?ve seen in pictures, and he and Mrs. Percy were gracious and showed me about the place and the town. I remembered that dream as I read Judge Ellis?s remembrance and chuckled. Even in the subconscious workings of a scholars brain, it seems that Walker Percy is ever himself. Dave Duty, I am also quite interested in any Percy correspondence on semiotic. If you?d be willing to share, I am not the only one who would be most delighted. Cheers to all, Rhonda Sent from my iPhone On Aug 19, 2022, at 10:18 PM, Karl M. Terrell wrote: ? What a charming remembrance. I recall reading, elsewhere, that when asked by locals in Covington what he did for a living, his response that he was a writer was met typically with silence. He decided, ultimately, that he would just say: ?Nothing.? ?And they were OK with this.? Sent from my iPhone On Aug 19, 2022, at 7:18 PM, Henry P. Mills III wrote: ? Dear Percy-L community: For those interested in a previously unpublished personal remembrance of Percy, please enjoy this touching recollection penned by longtime Covington resident Judge F. Stephen Ellis, as prepared for The Walker Percy Project. Following the below excerpt is a link to Judge Ellis' full remembrance, as well as one to more remembrances from other close friends of Percy, including Robert Coles. Would anyone else on the list care to share personal remembrances or recollections of Percy, or past visits to his hometown area? (Dave Duty, I?ve always wanted to know more about your long term correspondence with Percy on semiotics and where the collection is housed today so researchers can know about it.) Best Percy regards, Henry Mills Percy-L Administrator ?????????? On Friendship with Walker Percy BY FREDERICK STEPHEN ELLIS Judge F. Stephen Ellis is author of the historical book St. Tammany Parish: L'Autre Cote Du Lac (Pelican: 1981), which includes a foreword by Walker Percy. Ellis' remembrance is dated January 21, 1997, and is an original publication arranged for by The Project. "I first met Walker shortly after I came to Covington in the summer of 1949. He lived in the old Norman place on Military Road, about three miles out from Covington. We would see each other from time to time at parties and other community events. When his first book, "The Moviegoer," came out, it was not considered a big deal locally, even after he won the National Book Award. There were, after all, other published authors in Covington. There was not a bookstore, but Hebert's drug store carried his book, and it was there that I bought my first edition. We got to be good friends in the early to mid-70s, when we mated our miniature schnauzers?" Remembrance continued at: https://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy/remembrances/ellis.html --- Go to directory of all Remembrances ________________________________ This email has been scanned for spam and viruses by Proofpoint Essentials. 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Stephen Ellis In-Reply-To: <0AF5BADA-D5BD-4297-890A-2A1AE31EC7AE@stokeswagner.com> References: <0AF5BADA-D5BD-4297-890A-2A1AE31EC7AE@stokeswagner.com> Message-ID: <905731588.417852.1660966493598@mail.yahoo.com> I thoroughly enjoyed this recollection. It is so good to read about the person by someone who knew him well.I always regretted I didn't read Percy until late in life, and after he was gone, and I never got the chance to write him. Janet Cantor On Friday, August 19, 2022, 10:18:31 PM EDT, Karl M. Terrell wrote: What a charming remembrance. I recall reading, elsewhere, that when asked by locals in Covington what he did for a living, his response that he was a writer was met typically with silence.? He decided, ultimately, that he would just say: ?Nothing.?? ?And they were OK with this.? Sent from my iPhone On Aug 19, 2022, at 7:18 PM, Henry P. Mills III wrote: ?Dear Percy-L community: For those interested in a previously unpublished personal remembrance of Percy, please enjoy this touching recollection penned by longtime Covington resident Judge F. Stephen Ellis, as prepared for The Walker Percy Project. Following the below excerpt is a link to Judge Ellis' full remembrance, as well as one to more remembrances from other close friends of Percy, including Robert Coles.? Would anyone else on the list care to share personal remembrances or recollections of Percy, or past visits to his hometown area? (Dave Duty, I?ve always wanted to know more about your long term correspondence with Percy on semiotics and where the collection is housed today so researchers can know about it.) Best Percy regards,Henry MillsPercy-L Administrator ?????????? On Friendship with Walker Percy BY FREDERICK STEPHEN ELLIS Judge F. Stephen Ellis is author of the historical book?St. Tammany Parish: L'Autre Cote Du Lac (Pelican: 1981), which includes a foreword by Walker Percy. Ellis' remembrance is dated January 21, 1997, and is an original publication arranged for by The Project. "I first met Walker shortly after I came to Covington in the summer of 1949. He lived in the old Norman place on Military Road, about three miles out from Covington. We would see each other from time to time at parties and other community events. When his first book, "The Moviegoer," came out, it was not considered a big deal locally, even after he won the National Book Award. There were, after all, other published authors in Covington. There was not a bookstore, but Hebert's drug store carried his book, and it was there that I bought my first edition. We got to be good friends in the early to mid-70s, when we mated our miniature schnauzers?" 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Terrell) Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 17:28:43 +0000 Subject: [percy-l] Percy & GK Chesterton In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I am not a Catholic, nor adherent to any dogma, but have always admired Percy?s literary illustrations tied to his conversion. The quoted Q&A in this article, in which ? aligned with Chesterton ? Percy points out the limitations of so-called scientific humanism, reminds me that Chesterton was a fierce opponent of eugenics, which was then a popular idea in many western nations (and remained as such under Naziism). The following is source-cited in the Wikipedia article on Chesterton: [Chesterton] derided such ideas as founded on nonsense, "as if one had a right to dragoon and enslave one's fellow citizens as a kind of chemical experiment".[79 ]Chesterton mocked the idea that poverty was a result of bad breeding: ?... The poor are not a race or even a type. It is senseless to talk about breeding them; for they are not a breed. They are, in cold fact, what Dickens describes: 'a dustbin of individual accidents,' of damaged dignity, and often of damaged gentility." Karl Terrell From: Percy-L on behalf of Steve Petrica Date: Monday, August 22, 2022 at 12:35 PM To: Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion Subject: [percy-l] Percy & GK Chesterton I'm attaching a brief essay -- "Found in the Cosmos" -- about Percy and GK Chesterton, from the current issue of Gilbert, the magazine of the American Chesterton Society. I hope you enjoy it! Steve Petrica ________________________________ This email has been scanned for spam and viruses by Proofpoint Essentials. Click here to report this email as spam. Privileged Communication: This e-mail message and all attachments transmitted are legally privileged and confidential, and are intended only for the individual or entity to whom it is directed. 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Also, and I think relevant, is this podcast from Hillsdale college: Episode 241:?The Innocence of Father Brown?by G.K. Chesterton August 16, 2022 John J. Miller is joined by Michael Warren Davis of the Sophia Institute Press to discuss G. K. Chesterton?s book,?The Innocence of Father Brown. The Great Books National Review?s national correspondent and professor at Hillsdale College, John J. Miller, discusses classic works within the Western literary canon. SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE: - ITUNES - GOOGLE PODCASTS - STITCHER - TUNEIN - SPOTIFY - - - - - Janet Cantor I'm attaching a brief essay -- "Found in the Cosmos" -- about Percy and GK Chesterton, from the current issue of Gilbert, the magazine?of the American Chesterton Society. I hope you enjoy it! Steve Petrica -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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