Percy-L: Literary, Religious, Scientific, and Philosophical Discussion of Walker Percy

["Henry P. Mills" <wpercy1 AT mail.ibiblio.org>]

Dear Percy-L:

Can anyone help Mr. Kukla find the essay he seeks?

Henry Mills


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> From: "kukla" <kukla AT lynchburg.net>
> Reply-To: <kukla AT lynchburg.net>
> Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 11:42:42 -0500
> To: <wpercy1 AT sunsite.unc.edu>
> Subject: Percy citation query
> 
> I have misplaced my photocopy of and citation to a Walker Percy essay, 
> perhaps
> in The Nation in the 40s or 50s, in which he describes New Orleans's 
> relation
> to its southern environs.
> He comments about New Orleans as a city of 'minor virtues.'
> He describes visitors driving across the wetlands into the city and
> confronting 'more nuns and naked women' than they've ever seen.
> 
> If anyone can supply the citation, I would be grateful.
> 
> 
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