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  • From: Michael Serafin <michael_serafin AT hotmail.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [percy-l] Percy-L Digest, Vol 140, Issue 1
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 16:02:45 +0000

Thanks for posting these. I'm surprised that a law publication would devote so much space to Percy.




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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: "Living as an Ex-Suicide" by Jessica Hooten Wilson
      (Marshall Smith)
   2. Percy (honeyjbc1)
   3. Re: Percy (RHONDA MCDONNELL)


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Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 20:07:58 -0500
From: Marshall Smith <mhsmithjrlaw AT gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [percy-l] "Living as an Ex-Suicide" by Jessica Hooten
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I have always marveled at the way Percy wrote about suicide philosophically and matter of factly at the same time.  It?s obvious in his writing that he had a terrible familiarity with it but had also thought about the philosophical/moral/religious implications deeply for many years.

Marshall
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> On Jun 20, 2018, at 2:33 AM, Henry P. Mills <wppdirector AT gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear Percy-L:
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> For the group's reading and reflection. Certainly the recent suicides of Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade reveal how millions can be affected by the suicides of but two of us.  Percy himself once remarked how he was at the time the only one in multiple generations in his family lineage to live beyond 70 due repeated suicides in his family.
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> ***Jessica Hooten Wilson is an associate professor of literature and creative writing at John Brown University. She is the author of three books, including Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky & the Search for Influence and Reading Walker Percy's Novels.***
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> All best,
> Henry Mills
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> Living as an Ex-Suicide
> by JESSICA HOOTEN WILSON
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> JUNE 15, 2018
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> 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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I read this and thought it was easy to read and informative. This woman's
books must be interesting.

Janet Cantor


Walker Percy and the Gift of Influence
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/walker-percy-and-the-gift-of-influence/
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Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2018 07:23:15 +0000
From: RHONDA MCDONNELL <rhonda_mcdonnell AT msn.com>
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Glad to see work is still being done on Percy. I used Bloom?s Anxiety I?d Influence in my Percy dissertation?definitely a theory that works when studying him.

Thanks for the recommendation Janet! There?s a kindle edition that?s reasonably priced, so it?s now on my wish list.

Rhonda

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I read this and thought it was easy to read and informative. This woman's books must be interesting.

Janet Cantor



Walker Percy and the Gift of Influence

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/walker-percy-and-the-gift-of-influence/



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