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- From: Allen Pridgen <apridgen AT pinehurst.net>
- To: Percy-L AT happyhouse.metalab.unc.edu:Literary and Philosophical Discussion <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [percy-l] "...to the gas chamber..."
- Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 09:30:37 -0500
See the last pages of O'Connor's Introduction to A Memoir of Mary Ann on "tenderness" and the "fumers of the gas chamber." This essay (the final one in Mystery and Manners) is a truly profound statement about human suffering and charity.
I invite you to look at my commentary on this matter in my book, Walker Percy's Sacramental Landscapes (Susquehanna UP, 2000).
Allen Pridgen
Karey L. Perkins wrote:
Message When, what context or work, did O'Connor use it?KP----- Original Message -----From: Robert_Pauley AT oxy.comSent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 8:26 PMSubject: RE: [percy-l] "...to the gas chamber..."
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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