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[percy-l] "Living as an Ex-Suicide" by JESSICA HOOTEN WILSON
- From: "Henry P. Mills" <wppdirector AT gmail.com>
- To: Percy-L <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: [percy-l] "Living as an Ex-Suicide" by JESSICA HOOTEN WILSON
- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 11:43:23 -0400
Dear Percy-L: For your reading interest. All best, Henry Mills Percy-L Administrator JUNE 15, 2018 Opening paragraphs: “The only cure for depression is suicide.” Walker Percy was not joking when he penned this line. The author himself was a survivor of suicide—though he did not attempt it. His grandfather and father both shot themselves at home; his mother either intentionally or not drove off of a bridge and drowned; and the first American Percy, Charles Percy, tied a kettle to his neck and also drowned. Unlike his ancestors, Walker Percy lived a full life and died of prostate cancer at 74 years old. Why did they die but he lived? Because Percy chose to be a survivor, to find out not only why his father took his own life, but, as he put it, “to make damn sure it didn’t happen to [him].” This determination fueled his work. Percy wrote novel after novel trying to solve what Albert Camus called the only philosophical question, to be or not to be…. |
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[percy-l] "Living as an Ex-Suicide" by JESSICA HOOTEN WILSON,
Henry P. Mills, 06/19/2018
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- [percy-l] "Living as an Ex-Suicide" by Jessica Hooten Wilson, Henry P. Mills, 06/20/2018
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[percy-l] "Living as an Ex-Suicide" by Jessica Hooten Wilson,
Henry P . Mills, 06/20/2018
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Re: [percy-l] "Living as an Ex-Suicide" by Jessica Hooten Wilson,
Marshall Smith, 06/20/2018
- Re: [percy-l] "Living as an Ex-Suicide" by Jessica Hooten Wilson, Plemmons, Gregory, 06/21/2018
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Re: [percy-l] "Living as an Ex-Suicide" by Jessica Hooten Wilson,
Marshall Smith, 06/20/2018
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