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

["Ken Wilson" <kfwacw AT centurylink.net>]

Janet wrote:

> But Percy understands that it is not easy. He went through many bouts of alcoholism and lapsing from his Catholicism and he finally realized, of course he was also older and mellowed, perhaps, that he had to go cold sober and go back To his Bunt and reach for G-d again.

 

Is this substantiated? I’ve read the Tolson bio and skimmed the Samway, and I only remember that he drank too much at times (due to depression, if I remember correctly), not that he ever came to consider himself an alocholic, or that he ever quit.