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

[Mark Maier <mark.maier AT gmail.com>]

Richard Ford on the Moviegoer
(http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2005/06/20050623_b_main.asp)

Mark

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>    1. Are there any WP events or news? (William Parish)
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>    3. RE: Are there any WP events or news? (Robert_Pauley AT oxy.com)
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> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 03:11:39 +0000
> From: "William Parish" <willparish AT hotmail.com>
> Subject: [percy-l] Are there any WP events or news?
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> Dear Friends,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone knows of any books or events planned this year
> that are Percy-related.
> 
> Also, a retired professor friend of mine recently told me that he did not
> care for Walker Percy because he was a 'homophobe'.  In the many bios,
> interviews and stories I have heard and read about WP's life -I have never
> heard or read anything about his position on homosexuals.  Is he mistaken?
> 
> Will Parish
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> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 00:13:39 -0400
> From: chaslow53 AT aol.com
> Subject: Re: [percy-l] Are there any WP events or news?
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>  <<I was wondering if anyone knows of any books or events planned this year 
> that are Percy-related.>>
> I, too, was wondering specifically if the Percy confab held last year in 
> mid-November in Covington was on for this year as well.
> 
> <<Also, a retired professor friend of mine recently told me that he did not 
> care for Walker Percy because he was a 'homophobe'.>>
> I do not recall anything specific about this, but I remember reading in the 
> Shelby Foote-WP letters a letter WP wrote in which he discussed his views 
> on pornography, which were that most of it was not of interest to him one 
> way or the other, but, except for some questions about access by minors, he 
> didn't think it was particularly useful or appropriate for the state to 
> involve itself.  I remember actually thinking at the time that, mutatis 
> mutandis, those might well be his views on the legal aspects of homosexual 
> relationships as well.  I am in Los Angeles on business and cannot quote 
> the letter, but I am sure there are others on the list who will know to 
> which one I refer.
> 
> Chuck Lowry
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> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 22:08:30 -0700
> From: <Robert_Pauley AT oxy.com>
> Subject: RE: [percy-l] Are there any WP events or news?
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> I would say it was a category of modern life or lifestyle on which Percy
> did not expend too much consciousness. But I'm sure somewhere in his
> writings he made a gamey crack or two about homosexuals, or offered up
> what might be seen as an "insensitive portrayal". It doesn't take much
> these days to be qualified as a "phobe" of one sort or another in some
> people's minds.
> 
> Cheers, R. Pauley
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> 
> Dear Friends,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone knows of any books or events planned this year
> 
> that are Percy-related.
> 
> Also, a retired professor friend of mine recently told me that he did
> not
> care for Walker Percy because he was a 'homophobe'.  In the many bios,
> interviews and stories I have heard and read about WP's life -I have
> never
> heard or read anything about his position on homosexuals.  Is he
> mistaken?
> 
> Will Parish
> 
> 
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