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

[Henry Mills <wppdirector AT gmail.com>]

Dear Percy-L,

Here is notice of an upcoming exhibit on Percy and  "The Irreducible Self" in NYC in January.  Those who are interested can consult the below information and links.  For any who might attend, please do consider sharing  a report with the rest of the Percy-L community.

Best regards,

Henry Mills
Percy-L Manager

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Dear Mr. Mills:

We thought you might like to know that New York Encounter is organizing a public exhibit about the life and work of Walker Percy, "The Irreducible Self," which will be on display from Jan. 17-19, 2014, in New York City.

 

The exhibit is free and open to the public.

 

"... Although there are many aspects of Percy’s writing that make his work attractive, his particular genius was that he could make you, his reader, feel a new fascination for the strangeness of your own being. If you engage Walker Percy’s work seriously, you are changed. You can no longer take for granted that you are a clearly defined being plugged into a world that more or less makes sense. You are aware that your humanity is indeed 'the strangest object in the Cosmos' and the world around you is in many ways constructed to suffocate and avoid the questions that our being provokes. ..."

 

For more information:

http://newyorkencounter.org/2014-exhibits/2013/10/27/walker-percy-the-irreducible-self.html

http://newyorkencounter.org/about/

"New York Encounter (NYE) is an annual three-day public cultural festival in the heart of New York City organized by members of the Catholic movement Communion and Liberation and by Crossroads Cultural Center. NYE strives to witness to the new life and knowledge generated by the faith, following Pope Benedict's claim that 'the intelligence of faith has to become the intelligence of reality.' ..."

 

Please feel free to pass the information on to your email contacts in the tri-state area who you think might be interested.

Thank you very much!

Rita A. Simmonds

Events Coordinator

Crossroads Cultural Center

rita AT crossroadsculturalcenter.org