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

["Tommy Armstrong" <tfa AT brickengraver.com>]

I often wonder what he would have thought of Stephen Maturin in O’Brian series. I think would have thought him to be a kindred soul.

 

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To be aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Walker Percy

 

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I think I'd let others sound off on this one. I think that Walker would have found Road boring for the same reason he found Proust  boring. The same reason he found Barcester Towers boring. Shelby was always trying to get him to read the one and I the other. He turned thumbs down on both after trying them. The fact is that there is no accounting for taste. Those were his tastes. That was how the question was put.

 

Nikki

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