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

[marcus AT loyno.edu]

Okay, I agree that we don't need this topic to cope with the
dogdays while we await a hurricane to blow away the heat and
southern Louisiana, but, if I may presume to speak for WP,
he might have demurred to Julio by reminding us all that in
1973 (?) he wrote a portrait of America split between
ranting knotheads and bumbling liberals that was on the
brink of collapse and civil war.  Welcome to Love in the
Ruins.

Marcus Smith
New Orleans

By the way, Julio, I think American armies in that novel are
fighting a protracted guerilla war in South America.
Ecuador?

PS  Not a Bush fan, by the way.  Nor do I care at all about
Mullah Pat.

----- Original Message Follows -----
From: "Dye, Steve" <sldye AT bluegrass.org>
To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion"
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Subject: Re: [percy-l] U.S. : Terrorist SuperPower?
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 12:38:40 -0400

> I must be confused - I thought this was a Walker Percy
> discussion group????
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: percy-l-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:percy-l-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of
> Aaron Keith Harris Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 12:34
> PM To: Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion
> Subject: Re: [percy-l] U.S. : Terrorist SuperPower?
>
> You're kidding, right?
>
> --- J Rivas-Pita <juliorivas AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear friends,
> >
> > In a quite Percy-vein, let me ask those of you
> > (the majority, I
> > suppose) who live in the U.S.: Do you realize
> > that you may be living
> > in a terrorist superpower, by now?
> >
> > Not only in the sense that Mr. Bush, à la
> > Hitler, invades countries
> > using fake arguments, but also in that people
> > like this
> > "televangelist" Pat Robertson -who clearly
> > belongs into some nuts
> > asylum- can get away with TV appeals to
> > assassinate Venezuela's
> > President without even blushing, saying that
> > Venezuelans supossedly
> > are within U.S.'s "sphere of influence"?
> >
> > And all Mr. Rumsfeld and the State Department
> > can say is that
> > Robertson is "a private citizen" entitled to
> > his views... Owning a
> > large fundamentalist "Christian" TV network
> > that reaches a vast
> > audience, by the way (which both Rumsfeld and
> > the State Department
> > conveniently forgot).
> >
> > What would you say, for instance, if someone
> > here in Caracas ventured
> > a similar proposal to "take out" Mr. Bush
> > -assuredly a far greater
> > risk for all of us than President Chávez, if
> > only because he has
> > control over thousands of nuclear warheads?
> >
> > With all best wishes,
> >
> > Julio
> >
> > PS. Not a Chávez fan, by the way...
> >
> > --
> > Be Happy! (Fr. Benito Ballesteros, OSB,
> > 1924-1996)
> > Sé feliz! (P. Benito Ballesteros, OSB,
> > 1924-1996)
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> >
>
>
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