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  • From: "Lawrence Rhu" <rhul AT gwm.sc.edu>
  • To: <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [percy-l] Group Read Suggestions??
  • Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:59:54 -0400

Count me in. I'd love to reread LITR (hopefully, as a starter in a progress
through other Percy books), hear what people think about it, and share my
thoughts with them when time allows and they seem worth an airing.

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

>>> padraig AT well.com 09/19/05 1:28 PM >>>
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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