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>]

List,

It is probably more the case that Palahniuk and Percy read the same 
philosphers. There is a reference to Heidegger in _Stranger than Fiction_.

I did run across praise of Pery's prose on one of the web sites devoted to 
Palahniuk. 

Palahniuk is definitely popular with the young soldiers I work with.

No doubt he speaks to recurring themes that Percy also tapped into.

  Bob Eckert 
  Ft. Riley, KS

----- Original Message -----
From: RHONDA MCDONNELL <rhonda_mcdonnell AT msn.com>
Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008 19:59
Subject: Re: [percy-l] Palahniuk
To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" 
<percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>


> I have no answers, but you have reawakened in me a desire to read 
> Palahniuk--as soon as I grade the mountain of essays that I'm 
> presently avoiding. 
> --Rhonda "You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual, 
> because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, 
> man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing."   
>                                   Walker Percy
> 
> Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 08:30:22 -0500From: 
> gregory.plemmons AT Vanderbilt.EduTo: percy-
> l AT lists.ibiblio.orgSubject: Re: [percy-l] Palahniuk
> 
> I've always wondered the same. Haven't re-read (or seen) _Choke_ 
> since the movie came out, but there's a wonderful passage on page 
> 151:Every addiction...drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it 
> was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. 
> Our education. Our bite of the apple.Language, she said, was just 
> our way to explain away the wonder and the glory of the world. To 
> deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how 
> beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and 
> understood..."We don't live in the real world anymore," she said. 
> "We live in a world of symbols."Like Percy also, the protagonist 
> (Victor Mancini) also shares an incomplete medical education. But 
> I've never heard Pahlaniuk comment on Percy in most of the 
> interviews I've read.Gregory Plemmons-----Original Message-----
> From: percy-l-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org on behalf of Wade 
> RiddickSent: Sun 10/5/2008 6:41 PMTo: Percy-L: Literary and 
> Philosophical DiscussionSubject: Re: [percy-l] 
> Palahniuk>List,>>Just been reading _Survivor_ by Palahniuk.>>Many 
> echos of Percy.>>Wonder if he ever read Percy?>>Such lines as 
> "It's weird how the name outlives the person, the 
> signifier>outlasts the signified, the symbol the symbolized." 
> (p.88 _Survivor_)>speak to a common source.>>Any one know if 
> Palahniuk ever spoke of Percy?>No, but I just saw _Fight Club_ 
> again the other night and his attack on thespiritual corrosiveness 
> of consumer credit appears, in retrospect,materially prophetic.  
> We seem to be stuck in one of those periodiceconomic crises where 
> all the supposedly "sin-less" businessmen haveawakened to the fact 
> that their ticker symbols and other financialinstruments have 
> drifted far afield of the underlying reality they weresupposed to 
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