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

["Marcus" <marcus AT loyno.edu>]

My memory is shot and getting shot-er, but I knew and read
Becker while WP was alive and I am pretty sure I mentioned
him to Walker.  "Hey, Walker, have you ever looked at The
Denial Of Death?"  I have no recollectiion of him saying
anything in response.  

Marcus

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>    1. Re: Ernest Becker's 1974 Pulitzer Prize winner: The 
>   Denial of
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>    2. Re: Ernest Becker's 1974 Pulitzer Prize winner:
> TheDenial    of
>       Death (Karey Perkins)
>    3. Re: Ernest Becker's 1974 Pulitzer Prize winner:   
> TheDenial    of
>       Death (Lawrence Rhu)
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> Although this is not authoritative as it is virtually
> impossible to prove a  negative, i do not ever recall
> hearing Walker discuss Becker. One might review  his
> library donation inventory to see if Becker was among the
> books.
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> From: "Karey Perkins" <karey AT kareyperkins.com>
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> Thanks.  I do think it's interesting that some of the same
> concepts are discussed and similar conclusions are
> reached.  Though, since they both did read the same people
> , that probably isn't so unusual.
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> Karey
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> Although this is not authoritative as it is virtually
> impossible to prove a negative, i do not ever recall
> hearing Walker discuss Becker. One might review his
> library donation inventory to see if Becker was among the
> books.
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> Nikki Barranger
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> From: "Lawrence Rhu" <rhul AT gwm.sc.edu>
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> I think it (that P may not have read B yet shares such
> deep resonance with his lines of thought) is very
> interesting _precisely_ b/c it suggests that the
> boundaries of a shared culture are not textual in so
> specific -- or, if you will, positivistic, a way, as the
> question, "Did P read B?" implies.  When Richard Ford says
> that The Moviegoer made him feel he could write a novel
> about anywhere, I think he was saying the same kind of
> thing.  Percy expressed dismay at the label "Southern"
> novelist because he felt it was a way critics could easily
> pigeonhole him and deny him fuller, fairer reading.  Yet
> he was certainly full and direct in his acknowledgment of
> Southernness as a central part of his identity, even
> though public conversation on the topic might set his
> teeth on edge when it was simply assumed to have specific
> meanings, etc.  Of course, The Moviegoer couldn't be much
> more deeply embedded in New Orleans than it is, and yet it
> is inspired and animated by continental art a
>  nd thinking.  So somebody like Ford feels freed by it as
> a writer and ends up, in The Sportswriter, penning a
> remarkable novel so different yet so indebted to P's first
> and subsequent novels as well.
> 
> Larry
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> Lawrence F. Rhu
> Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
> University of South Carolina
> Columbia, SC  29208
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> >>> karey AT kareyperkins.com 07/17/06 1:42 PM >>>
> Thanks.  I do think it's interesting that some of the same
> concepts are discussed and similar conclusions are
> reached.  Though, since they both did read the same people
> , that probably isn't so unusual.
> 
>  
> 
> Karey
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> 
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> Nikkibar AT aol.com Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 12:52 PM
> To: percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [percy-l] Ernest Becker's 1974 Pulitzer Prize
> winner: TheDenial of Death
> 
>  
> 
> Although this is not authoritative as it is virtually
> impossible to prove a negative, i do not ever recall
> hearing Walker discuss Becker. One might review his
> library donation inventory to see if Becker was among the
> books.
> 
> Nikki Barranger
> 
> 
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