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  • From: "RHONDA MCDONNELL" <rhonda_mcdonnell AT msn.com>
  • To: percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [percy-l] Lancelot the Jihadist
  • Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:17:43 -0700

Nikki--

Thank you for your insightful comments. You often have a way of bringing clarity to a discussion.

--Rhonda

"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance"

e.e. cummings


From: Nikkibar AT aol.com
Reply-To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
To: percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org
CC: jamdi AT bellsouth.net, marcus AT loyno.edu
Subject: Re: [percy-l] Lancelot the Jihadist
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:22:56 EST

I would dissent from mr. Larson's view that Walker is speaking through
Lancelot, a mistake that even learned critics have been making for years. this
awlays puzzled Walker after the publication of the book with the same puzzzlement
Socrtes must have felt as they passed him the hemlock.

"Don't folks know irony when they see it?" opined WP. I would remeark that
the reasson for the mistake is that there is something so appealing in the Lance
character that put s the reader on his side despite his nihilism in the
latter passages of the book.

Walker was by my personal observation of him, much taken with the Vatican II
changes at a time when lots of RCs in Covington were not. I mean to check
these observations with others and supplement this hereafter.

Nikki Barranger


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