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

["RHONDA MCDONNELL" <rhonda_mcdonnell AT msn.com>]

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
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> 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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