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

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  • From: Wade Riddick <wriddick AT usa.net>
  • To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [percy-l] lancelot
  • Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:19:38 -0600

>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.

Is there a statement here about the suicidal costs of vengeance? A debate
Lancelot's having with himself that maybe, "I must be cruel only to be
kind?"






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