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

["Richard Warren" <RWarren AT boultcummings.com>]

There is an audiocassette version of Foote reading the unabridged 3 volumes 
if it is still available (Amazon says they can deliver it in 5 or 6 weeks).  
Also, the Modern Library excerpted the portion of the book detailing the 
Gettysburg campaign and later the siege of Vicksburg.  Another place to hear 
Foote talking is in the documentary films about Southern literature "Tell 
About the South" from Ross Spears of the James Agee Project.  I have only 
seen the first two hour installment, which includes an interview with Foote 
holding his cat in his lap and discussing Faulkner.  I understand that he 
discusses Percy in one of the later two films.

Richard Warren

>>> sldye AT bluegrass.org 07/30/03 12:00PM >>>
Enjoyed reading the latest "chat" about Foote. Hey, if anyone has heard him
speak in person or even seen the Ken Burns "Civil War" series on PBS, he is
wonderful to "hear" - for those of us from the South, he truly is like the
neighbor next door or if you are not from the South, his diction, "accent"
etc should be enthralling to you, I would hope.

Maybe the nicest combination would be to have an audiobook of his novels,
narrated by him.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Wesson" <gypsyjimmy1 AT yahoo.com>
To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion"
<percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: [percy-l] foote


> hi all,
>   i am just finishing Foote's 3 vol. 'Civil War'
> never was able to get through even one third of a CW
> book before! Foote makes the reading so interesting,
> informative and enjoyable.
> jim
>
>
>
>
>
> --- Nikkibar AT aol.com wrote:
> > Dear Rhonda,
> >
> > The Civil War magnum opus is somewhat daunting and
> > certainly time consuming.
> > On the other hand if you're interested in the Civil
> > War it is the definitive
> > work on the subject at least for our generation.
> > More to the point so far as
> > filling in the points of interest that one might
> > have if you approach Foote
> > mainly from the direction of Percy, I would suggest
> > you sneak up on the Civil War
> > by reading the Foote novel canon, starting with
> > Follow Me Down and then
> > deciding where to go from there, ending with
> > September September.
> >
> > Bear in mind when pursuing this course that Walker
> > and Shelby both were
> > youthful builders of model airplanes. Walker built
> > the balsa and tissue paper type
> > which we are told  flew like crazy and were meant to
> > fly but his planes had a
> > certain rag tag appearance. Shelby built the other
> > type which came in shaped
> > chunks of wood that you glued together and sanded
> > down endlessly, painted with
> > dope and glued on the window labels -- and then hung
> > from a light fixture in
> > the bedroom. They looked great but would not fly nor
> > were they meant to.
> > Biographers and critics have remarked that the same
> > sort of thing tends to happen in
> > their respective novels. I leave it to you to see if
> > you agree.
> >
> > Nikki
> > > --
> >
> > An archive of all list discussion is available at
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> >
> > Visit the Walker Percy Project at
> > http://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy 
> >
>
>
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