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- From: <Robert_Pauley AT oxy.com>
- To: <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [percy-l] LITR
- Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 10:23:07 -0700
A couple of priests played
pivotal roles in The Second Coming.
I don’t recall his name, but the parish priest always trying to encourage
Will Barrett to join his church’s men’s group outings and otherwise come “into
the fold” was one, and represented the kind the extreme earnestness which
Percy, or at least
Barrett, found simultaneously
cloying and yet not unimportant to a community. The second was an older, former renegade
missionary who jolts Will into his final, redemptive awareness that “a
gift may be a sign of a giver.” I
found this Percy novel to be his most accomplished and accessible: a
solidly grounded meditation on suburban malaise and self-delusion, an effective
and prescient social satire (Will's daughter's
"new-age" enthusiasms are hilarious), and a touching love story. Not easy to pull off. It tracked a character straight through
from the impulse to suicide to a saving awareness without ever resorting to the
kind of dopey flourishes of so many other social satires of the time – and
afterward. Basically, Will Barrett
loses his mind without ever losing his head. I also appreciated the fact that it
followed up on Will Barrett after leaving him off in a
Peace. From: percy-l-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:percy-l-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Dye, Steve Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 7:35 AM To: Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion Subject: Re: [percy-l] LITR You are asking a very
loaded question – it will be interesting to see the responses you
get! Steven L. Dye,
MA Director Bluegrass MH-MR Board,
Inc. 1500 Leestown Road,
Suite 338 Lexington, KY
40511 -----Original
Message----- From: Dye,
Steve [mailto:sldye AT bluegrass.org] Have any of
you considered the role of priests in Percy’s novels? Is there any common
thread? In The Moviegoer is there a priest? The
role grows into a main character in The
Thanatos Syndrome, Father Reynaldo Smith. There must be a
purpose for these priests. As a
Protestant Christian, I would like to know if Catholic Percy readers see any of
these priests as realistic. Rich
Gray |
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Re: [percy-l] LITR,
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