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  • From: "Henry P. Mills III" <wppdirector AT gmail.com>
  • To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [percy-l] ​Happy New Year to Percy-L -- "Walker Percy’s Pilgrimage​" (First Things Magazine)
  • Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2026 09:36:42 -0500

Happy New Year's greeting to all Percy-L members:

Algis Valiunas provides us a well-written, insightful essay appropriate to the start of a new year on Percy and his literary vision

Wishing all a successful journey to your own personal authenticity ahead
Best, Henry Mills

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"Walker Percy’s Pilgrimage"
First Things Magazine
Algis Valiuna, Nov. 25, 2025

"People can get used to most anything. Even the abyss may be rendered tolerable—or, for that matter, luxurious—furnished with creature comforts so that the unbearable truth of one’s condition is overlooked: a pair of lavishly upholstered armchairs, some choice pictures on the wall, bookcases laden with the best that has been thought and said, a sound system worthy of your favorite Beethoven and Brahms recordings, a well-stocked liquor cabinet, soothing overhead track lighting, and strategically placed table lamps to make you almost forget the perpetual darkness outside your walls. The hell with the world outside, anyway: You’re home, the best place there is, you’re prosperous and well liked, you’re a fine example to your children, your wife and your mistress are better-­looking than you deserve, and you can’t imagine a better life than the one you’ve got....“The specific character of despair is precisely this: it is unaware of being despair”...

https://firstthings.com/walker-percys-pilgrimage/



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Henry P. Mills III
Director, The Walker Percy Project



  • [percy-l] ​Happy New Year to Percy-L -- "Walker Percy’s Pilgrimage​" (First Things Magazine), Henry P. Mills III, 01/01/2026

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