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

[Charles Lowry <lowry.charles AT gmail.com>]

Dr. Percy was born thirty-two years before I was, so we did not have Two Natural in common, though I still have on the sideboard a bottle of Early Times.  We too had our college years "economy brands" of bourbon in Cincinnati, just as Dr Percy had in Chapel Hill.  We very contentedly drank Bardwell Deluxe ($3.69 for a fifth) until we chanced upon Old Crab Orchard ($4.05 for a quart).  It is a gratifying source of astonishment to me that any shreds of my esophagus remain.

To read Walker Percy's defense of bourbon is to realize that even this very famous and  skillful writer was, in Francis Bacon's memorable phrase, "drenched in flesh and blood." 

Chuck Lowry

Brooklyn, NY

On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 1:23 AM, RHONDA MCDONNELL <rhonda_mcdonnell AT msn.com> wrote:

Thanks Karl! What a thoroughly enjoyable read!

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On Dec 3, 2016, at 5:24 PM, Karl M. Terrell <kterrell AT stokeswagner.com> wrote:

Hope y’all enjoy this delightful, amusing essay by a devotee of Percy, in Garden & Gun Magazine (link below).

 

The good doctor’s exploration of the bosky wonders of bourbon are given their just due.

 

http://gardenandgun.com/article/high-low-make-mine-scotch

 

Karl Montague Terrell

 

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