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

["Karl M. Terrell" <kterrell AT sheastokes.com>]

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" .... The centre cannot hold/
  ....
The best lack all convictions, while the worst/
Are full of passionate intensity."

Yeats -- The Second Coming



-----Original Message-----
From: marcus AT loyno.edu [mailto:marcus AT loyno.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 1:39 PM
To: Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion
Subject: Re: [percy-l] U.S. : Terrorist SuperPower?


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"
<percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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)
> > --
> > An archive of all list discussion is available
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> > 
> > Visit the Walker Percy Project at http://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy
> > 
> 
> 
> Aaron Harris
> 
> No matter where I actually may be living or adventuring at the moment,

> please direct all correspondence to my permanent address at:
> 
> 4300 State Route 235
> Fairborn OH 45324
> mobile # 937-825-0204
> 
> 
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