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

[Jonathan Potter <jopomojo AT gmail.com>]

Robert,

Could this be the passage you had in mind:

Lost in the Cosmos, p. 146-7 (From "The Orbiting Self" section): "Only one example comes to mind of a writer who, though performing at a very high level of twentieth-century art, nevertheless manages to live on one of the few remaining islands of a more or less intact culture, in the very house where she was born, to enter into an intercourse with the society around her as naturally as the Chartres sculptor, to appear as herself, her self, the same self, both to fellow writer and fellow townsman: Eudora Welty.  Perhaps also William Carlos Williams.  If you do not think this remarkable, imagine that you have lived your entire life in the house where you were born.  For an American, an uncanny, even an unsettling fantasy."

Best regards,

Jonathan Potter

Spokane WA

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Eckert, Robert G SPC RES <robert.g.eckert AT us.army.mil> wrote:

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Dear List,

I seem to recall Percy saying something about missing living in the house you grew up in. The house I grew up in is on the market and has me racking my brains trying to remember/find that quote.

Or, I could have the author wrong...

Robert Eckert


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