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

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Wow! So many good ideas in this post. I s\will steal from them in  a future post. Just watch me.

Janet Cantor

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From: Lauren Stacy Berdy <lauren.stacy.berdy AT gmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2014 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: [percy-l] the gift

"we don't understand what the gift is"
I'm not sure who Slomo stands before and what his epistemology is?

however just perhaps he is in the service of his Daemon? ( the opposite being narcissism)

 A NARCISSUS FEELS THAT THE "GIFT" COMES FROM HIMSELF. and yes we are in an age which no one sacrifices to his genius
we live in a time when the adoration of the public turns men and woman into celebrities which cuts off all commerce with the guardian spirit.
The celebrity trades on his gift.
He doesn't sacrifice to them....... and without that sacrifice the returned GIFT  cannot be set free.

 Slomo needs an audience............(the gift must stay in motion).hahah

and Dr. More knows  finally that his gifts can't be withheld. What is his gift? it is not the lapsometer.  It is the discovery of the everyday magic, the delights of the ordinary things while living under the canopy of a the mystery which ) Percy called God and  knew it was good and that Christianity and the Christ would teach us so.............( others might call it other names)

For myself, I am drawn to fact that Dr. Percy knows that we humans have goodness inside of us it gets demented by our thinking.its all there for us to partake in maybe Slomo
just isn't demented anymore? and what we are witness to is his learning how to crawl as an adult.....what it look like when he starts walking? I don't know.

but that what makes life exciting and want to stay tuned..watch the world the story unfolds.........

Lauren Stacy Berdy