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

[Lauren Stacy Berdy <lauren.stacy.berdy AT gmail.com>]

I apologize for not responding to the specific excellent inquires that have been placed into out laps . I am looking forward  to reading the responses. 
If I can I will add something into the pot. ( perhaps I am not playing by the rules? I am sure......... someone will let me know)

I am re reading the book  electronically.

I don't know how to find the specific chapter. Yes, it is a sad commentary on my technical skills. I have all the other books save for LITR which I lent out long ago.......
All of this is to say that I might be a head of the reading group
again, I am sure someone will let me know.

Recently I came upon a paragraph in LITR  P 119
 I  wanted to explore with others?
 I am not sure how to understand it?
However, I believe that it is important in understanding and not only Dr. More as well as his creator Dr. Percy .


We are in the " the little Napoleon" with Leroy and the Tom.( again in my version page 119)

and I quote
"Where did the terror come from? Not from the violence; violence gives release from terror. Not from Leroy's wrongness, for if he were altogether wrong , an evil man,the matter would be simple and no cause for terror. No, it came from Leroy's goodness, that he is a decent, sweet natured man who would help you if you needed help. go out of his way and bind up a strangers wounds. No, the terror comes from the goodness and what lies beneath, some fault in the soul's terrain so deep that all is well on top, evil grins like good, but something shears and tears deep down and the very ground stirs beneath one's feet."

I haven't formed a question although a few are quietly bubbling up. Don Giovanni is about evil and Dr. More knows many of the arias.
I believe this is part of the scented trail that Percy is leading us on away from the  settled campsite of how we see the very ground that we walk on?

Once again thank you for this exploration






  

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Lauren Stacy Berdy