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Subject: Percy-L: Literary, Religious, Scientific, and Philosophical Discussion of Walker Percy
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- From: "janetcantor37 AT yahoo.com" <janetcantor37 AT yahoo.com>
- To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: [percy-l] request
- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 13:18:50 +0000 (UTC)
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On 6/22/15 5:41 PM, desmond wrote:
In his reading of The Moviegoer, Mr. Giraldi completely ignores one of its most important thematic threads, i.e. Binx's intuition of his "Jewishness" as a "clue" to his deepest identity, and where that clue leads him in the novel. Giraldi's simplified interpretation is a serious misreading of the novel (for his own purposes, I suppose).
John Desmond
In his reading of The Moviegoer, Mr. Giraldi completely ignores one of its most important thematic threads, i.e. Binx's intuition of his "Jewishness" as a "clue" to his deepest identity, and where that clue leads him in the novel. Giraldi's simplified interpretation is a serious misreading of the novel (for his own purposes, I suppose).
John Desmond
I wonder, would Mr. Desmond care to expand on this for us?
Every time I think I understand something in Percy, someone says something and I think I understand nothing.
Janet
- [percy-l] request, janetcantor37 AT yahoo.com, 06/23/2015
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