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  • From: Leonard <leonardh6363 AT gmail.com>
  • To: percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [percy-l] Binx's search for the right car
  • Date: Thu, 21 May 2026 13:40:55 -0400

Henry!

Don't torture me...I've always wanted an Austin-Healey--who would't? $33 thou is a steal, but I need a garage; otherwise I'd have to watch it rust away.  

Love spinning along the Gulf in that part of the Moviegoer. Binx did it in his beloved MG, rather than a Healey, of course.

Since we're on the subject, I have to point out that (I believe) Percy put Binx in that Dodge because Fitzgerald had Nick Carraway mention he had "an old Dodge" in a setting very similar to Binx's bungalow in the Big Easy.

Summer greetings to all the Percyites, and thank you Henry for that tempting car ad!

-Leonard

On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 6:29 AM Henry P. Mills III <wppdirector AT gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Percy-L,

For those who might be interested in a "good little car" for driving about New Orleans and Gentilly, see the link below. 

Meantime, stay tuned for an important Percy-L announcement tomorrow, Friday the 21st.

Best wishes,
Henry Mills

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Says Binx:
"[O]n my first trip to the Gulf Coast with Marcia, I discovered to my dismay that my fine new Dodge was a regular incubator of malaise. Though it was comfortable enough, though it ran like a clock, though we went spinning along in perfect comfort and with a perfect view of the scenery like the American couple in the Dodge ad, the malaise quickly became suffocating. We sat frozen in a gelid amiability. Our cheeks ached from smiling. […] I longed to stop the car and bang my head against the curb.

"It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh..."


Binx Bolling.jpg





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