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- From: "Karl M. Terrell" <kterrell AT stokeswagner.com>
- To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [percy-l] A New Member and a Question
- Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 01:14:46 +0000
It was wonderful to read Isaacson's NYT piece on Percy's hurricane theory. Wonderful to see our man discussed in the popular media. Beyond that observation, I have nothing really to add to the interesting question posed from the academic perspective,
except to say ... more power to you, and best wishes.
For what it's worth from a layman reader, the good doctor's observations of Wednesday afternoon despair in juxtaposition to Earth-rattling events are at the heart of what drew me to Percy in the first place. I then recall someone on this list once responding
to a heavily worded question, which asked, essentially ... what draws us to WP? The response: "The charm of the man." Perfect, I thought. It captured the beauty of his writing, those marvelous sentences that flowed and flowed into our thoughts, and the
grandeur of his ideas expressed with the grace and humor of a certain class of Southerner now disappearing from view.
My recommendation to all, come next weekend, is to locate Percy's remarks on the virtue of a mint julep. But don't just read about it; make one and pour it into a tumbler, and then sit on your porch and focus for awhile.
Karl Montague Terrell
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