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

["Eckert, Robert G SPC MIL USA FORSCOM" <robert.g.eckert AT us.army.mil>]

Perhaps people go on American Idol because, in their own way, they share Binx 
Bolling's dream of doing something great.

We all want to bigger than we are, to be more who we are than we are now. 

American Idol allows any and every aspiring singer the opportunity to become 
great. Indeed, the show has resulted in beginning the careers of great 
artists.


CPL Eckert
Ft. Riley, KS


----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Ballow <jeffballow AT nycmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 6:19
Subject: Re: [percy-l] ps
To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" 
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> I guess I'll go more lowbrow - I've always wondered what Percy 
> would have thought about American Idol!   
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Tommy Armstrong" <
> > To: "'Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion'" <
> > 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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> > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 11:48 PM
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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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