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

["Jeff Ballow" <jeffballow AT nycmail.com>]

I guess I'll go more lowbrow - I've always wondered what Percy would have 
thought about American Idol!   


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> From: "Tommy Armstrong" <tfa AT brickengraver.com>
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> Subject: Re: [percy-l] ps
> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:04:47 -0400
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Nikki
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