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- From: "Dye, Steve" <sldye AT bluegrass.org>
- To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [percy-l] LITR
- Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 13:29:53 -0400
Nice synopsis of the Second Coming –
I also thought it was a great “love story” in its own way and would
have been one of the two (Love in the Ruins the other) that could have been
effectively transferred to the “big screen”…Harrison Ford/Jack
Nicholson and Scarlett Johannsen???? Steven L. Dye, MA Director Bluegrass MH-MR Board,
Inc. -----Original Message----- 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 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. -----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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- [percy-l] LITR, Teresa, 04/06/2006
- Re: [percy-l] LITR, John Pearson, 04/06/2006
- Re: [percy-l] LITR, Dye, Steve, 04/06/2006
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Re: [percy-l] LITR,
Robert_Pauley, 04/06/2006
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Re: [percy-l] LITR,
RHONDA MCDONNELL, 04/09/2006
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Re: [percy-l] LITR,
Jonathan Potter, 04/09/2006
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Re: [percy-l] LITR,
RHONDA MCDONNELL, 04/09/2006
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Re: [percy-l] LITR,
Jonathan Potter, 04/09/2006
- Re: [percy-l] LITR, RHONDA MCDONNELL, 04/10/2006
- Re: [percy-l] LITR, Tommy Armstrong, 04/09/2006
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Re: [percy-l] LITR,
Jonathan Potter, 04/09/2006
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Re: [percy-l] LITR,
RHONDA MCDONNELL, 04/09/2006
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Re: [percy-l] LITR,
Jonathan Potter, 04/09/2006
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Re: [percy-l] LITR,
RHONDA MCDONNELL, 04/09/2006
- Re: [percy-l] LITR, Dye, Steve, 04/06/2006
- Re: [percy-l] LITR, Dye, Steve, 04/06/2006
- Re: [percy-l] LITR, MorrisJD, 04/06/2006
- Re: [percy-l] LITR, MorrisJD, 04/06/2006
- Re: [percy-l] LITR, Dye, Steve, 04/07/2006
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Re: [percy-l] LITR,
Gray, Rich, 04/09/2006
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Re: [percy-l] LITR,
Beck, David A, 04/09/2006
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Re: [percy-l] LITR,
RHONDA MCDONNELL, 04/10/2006
- Re: [percy-l] LITR, Jonathan Potter, 04/11/2006
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Re: [percy-l] LITR,
RHONDA MCDONNELL, 04/10/2006
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Re: [percy-l] LITR,
RHONDA MCDONNELL, 04/10/2006
- Re: [percy-l] LITR, Jonathan Potter, 04/11/2006
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Re: [percy-l] LITR,
Beck, David A, 04/09/2006
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