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

["Seth C. Holler" <scholler AT gmail.com>]

What an unhelpful first reply... :(

Alex: You might rethink your reading of both women as essentially irreligious. Doris is "ruined" by good clean books celebrating "high places." She isn't irreligious; she loses her religion.

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Seth C. Holler, Ph.D. candidate
Graduate Associate in Teaching
English Dept.
The University of Arizona

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Joshua <joshuaemrich AT yahoo.com> wrote:

They are 2 different women. And questions can be dumb.


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On Oct 10, 2012, at 12:12 PM, Alex Bell <alexbell25 AT tamu.edu> wrote:

> hello all,
>
> I'm a English graduate student at Texas A&M, and i have a question that hopefully can be answered (or at least assuaged) with consensus. In _Love in the Ruins_ Tom More repeatedly reminisces on his dead wife Doris. we are told that she was a highly principled yet non-religious woman (i believe he refers to her as an ex-episcopalian who found interest in eastern religion). Ellen Oglethorpe, Dr More's secretary and eventual lover, is the referred to in a similar fashion-- a Presbyterian who has "no use" for God, but who adheres to a strict moral code. How then are we to differentiate these women (if we even are to do so), especially in regards to their effect on More? can More's "choosing" of Ellen be a return to a previous state of life--life before the loss of his child--or is there as subtle difference between Doris and Ellen which i am missing?
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> thank you in advance for any enlightenment
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> Alex Bell
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