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

["Beck, David A" <dabeck AT iupui.edu>]

Thanks, Rhonda. Yeah, I told him (my student) there is a Hamlet theme 
("old mole") in one of his books, either LG or SC. The Hamlet motif is 
interesting, in the father/son thing. Obviously, Hamlet's father didn't 
commit suicide, but Percy's did. That "old mole" reference is 
interesting on several levels.

-David

Quoting RHONDA MCDONNELL <rhonda_mcdonnell AT msn.com>:

> Like Jim, I don't know the answer, but the question has me thinking.
> If no one has done a Percy/Shakespeare study, it could be worth
> someone's time (assuming they have more time than me).  There's the
> Hamlet motif in The Second Coming, and if we thought about it
> collectively there might be other cases of intertextuality or
> allusion in the other novels. Hmmmm . . . anyone?
>
> --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, 22 Feb 2010 11:25:03 -0500
> > From: dabeck AT iupui.edu
> > To: percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org
> > Subject: [percy-l] lancelot
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm teaching Lancelot right now, and one of my students rightly noted
> > some allusions to Henry IV. Does anyone know if anything has been
> > written on this topic? (Besides some references to names, I'm not that
> > up on Henry IV and haven't read it since grad school.)
> >
> > Thanks.
> > -David
> >
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