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[percy-l] "Breathing Again, Thanks to Walker Percy"

From: Steve Petrica <steve.petrica AT gmail.com>
To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [percy-l] "Breathing Again, Thanks to Walker Percy"
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:07:52 -0600

Percy, a trained psychiatrist turned author, foresaw [the dis-integration of America's social fabric] as disastrous for both the mental and spiritual well being of persons, the true “catastrophe” that he writes about in Love in the Ruins (and in the sequel, The Thanatos Syndrome). ... So why do I say Percy helps you to breathe again? Because he gets us out of the intellectual smog that tries to deny that things are really bad in America. This also helps you to again see the world as it really is. Smog blinds, as well as stifles the breath of life. Percy helps us to see the truth, as does every great novelist, and he does so from a truly Catholic vision of reality.

http://www.thecatholicthing.org/2015/12/09/breathing-thanks-walker-percy/

[percy-l] "Breathing Again, Thanks to Walker Percy", Steve Petrica, 12/10/2015