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

[Jim Wesson <gypsyjimmy1 AT yahoo.com>]

it's a great idea.
jim

--- Lawrence Rhu <rhul AT gwm.sc.edu> wrote:

> 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
> 
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