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

[Leslie Marsh <lesliemarsh AT gmail.com>]

A follow up to Walter's piece: http://www.towntopics.com/wordpress/2015/08/26/new-orleans-before-katrina-walker-percys-moviegoer-and-the-aesthetics-of-adversity/

Cheers,

Leslie.

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 7:03 AM, Henry Mills <wppdirector AT gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Percy-L:

An essay of interest with reflections on Katrina and New Orleans by Walter Isaacson, recent biographer of Steve Jobs.

Best,
Henry Mills
Percy-L Administrator

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New York Times - Sunday Book Review
Aug. 4, 2015

Walker Percy's Theory of Hurricanes
by Walter Isaacson

Walker Percy had a theory about hurricanes. "Though science taught that good environments were better than bad environments, it appeared to him that the opposite was the case," he wrote of Will Barrett, the semi-autobiographical title character of his second novel, "The Last Gentleman." "Take hurricanes, for example, certainly a bad environment if ever there was one. It was his impression that not just he but other people felt better in hurricanes." . . .

Continued at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/books/review/walker-percys-theory-of-hurricanes.html?_r=0

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