[percy-l] Percy & Hesse
Jonathan Potter
jopomojo at gmail.com
Fri Jul 22 22:00:06 EDT 2022
>From the ebook version of Love in the a Ruins:
On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 2:51 PM Doug Brown <wply1223 at gmail.com> 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
> <https://www.amazon.com/Walker-Percy-Loves-Wonderful-Plan/dp/B096LS1B7M>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 3:09 PM Lauren Berdy <lauren.stacy.berdy at gmail.com>
> 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.
>>
>>
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