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Re: [percy-l] A challenge: Can anyone identify these Percy characters and the book in which they appear?

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  • From: Lauren Berdy <lauren.stacy.berdy AT gmail.com>
  • To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [percy-l] A challenge: Can anyone identify these Percy characters and the book in which they appear?
  • Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 10:31:03 -0500
Who trust memory???

Perhaps 

Ted Tennis?

LITR
patient of Dr More
Comes to him lacking sexual energy
Wanting an artificial performance fix
Dr More directs him to take his
Own outward bound getting outside of his comfortable cul de sac 
A rotation ensues 
A tangled messy uncharted path on foot
Back home exhausted to wife and into her arms 
forgetting his suck of self
And?
Those beginning fumes of divorce
Are no longer his predicament 




















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On Dec 5, 2018, at 1:33 PM, Joseph Francisco <joe.francisco4591 AT gmail.com> wrote:

Possibly Ally's parents in The Second Coming?

On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 12:51 PM Henry P. Mills <wppdirector AT gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Percy-L:

One of our faithful off-list readers has a nagging Percy question.  Can anyone help Norma?

"The question is simple: Somewhere in Percy's work, there is a bickering divorced couple, both of them very bright people. Their conversations resemble a fast-paced pingpong game. I seem to recall that they are not the main characters, but I may be wrong on that, given that I haven't read the book in three decades or so. I remember being struck by the man's first name. It seemed as distinctive as the name "Binx" in theMoviegoer. But obviously not as memorable, or at least not to me at the age I am now. Was it "Sully," by any chance? That would at least explain why I'm thinking about the name now. If not, do you recall the accurate name?”

Please feel free to offer any clues to our listserv community or directly to me.

All best,

Henry Mills
Percy-L Administrator


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