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

[Patrick Lynch <padraig AT well.com>]

I am all for LITR! Let's us read.
Patrick

On Sep 19, 2005, at 9:11 AM, Gray, Rich wrote:

> After confessing to lurking, I want to second Steve and Tommy's  
> suggestions.  Love in the Ruins would make a fine beginning to a  
> book-at-a-time discussion.
>
> Rich Gray
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dye, Steve [mailto:sldye AT bluegrass.org]
> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 11:04 AM
> To: Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion
> Subject: Re: [percy-l] Group Read Suggestions??
>
> Having been a member of this list for several years now, this is  
> the best suggestion I have heard. It certainly beats recent subject  
> matter. I am one of the "lay" members but have read everything  
> Percy has written (am currently re-reading "The Moviegoer", which I  
> first read in 1973). I just happened to come upon "Love in the  
> Ruins" at a bookstore in New Orleans in 1988 and read it by the  
> pool at what was then the Clarion Hotel on Canal Street. It would  
> not be an exaggeration to say that reading Percy has changed my  
> life. The first thing I thought of as I watched the events in New  
> Orleans transpire that first few days was that it was right out of  
> "Love in the Ruins". The odd thing is that recently I had felt that  
> "love in the Ruins" had become somewhat "passé"!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: percy-l-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:percy-l- 
> bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Tommy Armstrong
> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 10:55 AM
> To: 'Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion'
> Subject: [percy-l] Group Read Suggestions??
>
> I would very much like to do this--especially since there are a lot  
> more
> smarter people on this list than myself, and would very probably  
> learn a
> great deal.
>
> What do you think Mr. Modrator?
>
> Come up with some very simple ground rules such as a standard  
> subject line,
> a start time and schedule--"reasonable time" is one of the  
> operative phrases
> here, and the list could give their suggestions. With POB all the  
> novels
> were about the same length, but with Percy, some would obviously  
> take longer
> than others. I am not sure about the novels of Percy and their  
> pagination
> between different editions, but it did make for an easier  
> discussion if most
> were using the same edition or at least if there was a cross  
> reference to
> the quotation under discussion.
>
> If it really got good, one could then compile all the posts about  
> the book
> under discussion into a master document.
>
> The way it worked with POB was that pretty much anything was fair  
> game as
> long as it came from the novel that was being read. Links to maps,
> definitions, historical material, etc. etc.
>
> For example the recipe of a "Gin Fizz" in Love in the Ruins.
>
> Tommy Armstrong
> PO Box 484
> Lillington, NC   27546
> http://www.brickengraver.com
>
> "If you're a big enough fool to climb a tree and like a cat refuse  
> to come
> down, then someone who loves you has to make as big a fool of  
> himself to
> rescue you."
> W Percy
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: percy-l-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:percy-l-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Lawrence Rhu
> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 8:56 AM
> To: percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [percy-l] Group Read --has it been done?
>
> Hello to all,
>
> I think is would very interesting to work through the novels at a  
> reasonable
> pace as a sort of on-line/list reading group.  As for the non- 
> fiction, that
> strikes me as harder to organize for such a discussion group.
>
> Also, for any of you out there who are looking to write conference  
> papers
> about Percy, there is an annual comp lit conference at USC  
> (Columbia) in
> February.   Its topic this year is "Cultures of Evil and the  
> Attractions of
> Villainy," which may make the experience of Tom More particlarly  
> relevant.
> Would any of you be interested in putting together a panel on the  
> two More
> novels and other relevant writings by Percy?
>
> Larry
>
> Lawrence F. Rhu
> Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature  
> University of
> South Carolina Columbia, SC  29208
> Tel:  803 777 0144
> Fax:  803 777 9064
> Email:  rhul AT sc.edu
>
>
> > > > tfa AT brickengraver.com 09/17/05 1:53 PM >>>
> I was just wondering if anything like that had been done on the  
> Percy List.
> I was once a member of a Patrick O'Brian list and they did a "group  
> read" of
> all of the Canon of 22 books that POB wrote--1 each two months if I
> remember. Would this be an appropriate use of this list. We used a  
> kind of a
> standard subject line, such as "GroupRead Master and Commander" so  
> that
> email clients could easily easily sort on just that thread. People who
> wished to participate did, those that did not simply filtered out that
> thread.
>
> I for one would love some sort of a stuctured way that would  
> "force" me to
> go back through the Percy Canon--especially with some guidance from  
> all the
> able bodied seamen that inhabit this ship.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Tommy Armstrong
> PO Box 484
> Lillington, NC   27546
> http://www.brickengraver.com <http://www.brickengraver.com/>
>
> ...with the method of science one beholds what is generally true about
> individuals, but art beholds what is uniquely true.
>
> Walker Percy
> Signposts in a Strange Land
>
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