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

[Teresa <ttbrader AT mindspring.com>]

I'm in!

Teresa

Dye, Steve wrote:

> 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"!