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  • From: Robert_Pauley AT oxy.com
  • To: percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: RE: [percy-l] "...to the gas chamber..."
  • Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 19:26:14 -0600

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It was Percy quoting O'Connor.
 
R. Pauley
-----Original Message-----
From: Karey L. Perkins [mailto:karey AT charter.net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 5:35 AM
To: percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [percy-l] "...to the gas chamber..."

I wasn't sure if it was Percy who had originally said this, or Percy quoting Flannery O'Connor or someone else.  I recently came across it in "Signposts in a Strange Land" in the epilogue "An Interview with Zoltan Abadi-Nagy" -- last line (p. 396, Picador). 
 
Am I correct in assuming this is a "Percy original" and this is the first time the phrase had been said?  Or is he referring to another use of the phrase?
 
By the way, I just finished Tolson's biography of Percy ("Pilgrim in the Ruins") and I thought it was fantastic. 
 
Karey
 



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