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

[Thomas Gollier <tgollier AT gmail.com>]

Lauren,

It certainly is a quiet list, but thank you for your welcome.  I also enjoyed your quote:

     “Once the final break is made between reality and language Arguments generate 

     their own Force and lay out their own logical Rules.”

from a text I'm not familiar with, yet.  Personally, though, I think Percy is being too nice.

When denotation is taken as some kind of primary connotation, taking the place of the

object itself, and to which other connotations can then be attached, we don't have

"arguments" or "rules" but just what I've seen called "cascading connotations."  A flow

of images in what Hegel called "picture-thinking."

This is, however, where I find Percy most interesting.

Thanks,

Tom

On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 11:10 AM Lauren Berdy <lauren.stacy.berdy AT gmail.com> wrote:

Hi

I am glad you stated this new thread

keep these words of Dr Percy’s above my desk

“ once the final break is made between reality and language 

Arguments generate their own

Force and lay out their own logical

Rules”

For this reader anyway as I get older

And reread The Doctor it comes to

Me so readily that he like Lawrence

Before him pointed us back to this

Earth, this life, this being

What is it?

And all the while summing up words

That summon up the greatest of our human abilities 

The merging of seeing with knowing

He was a seer and he knew the intellect is a collector. 

The meddling intellect mangles things

Quite badly 

Look At Sutter!

Thank you

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 14, 2019, at 11:26 AM, Henry P. Mills <wppdirector AT gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Percy-L:

This message from new member Tom Gollier was misaddressed to the list. Just as a reminder, Percy-L submissions should go to: <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>.  Let us welcome Tom!

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From: Thomas Gollier <tgollier AT gmail.com>

Subject: Re: Welcome to Percy-L

Date: April 7, 2019 at 11:18:33 PM EDT

To: "Henry P. Mills" <wppdirector AT gmail.com>

Cc: Percy List <percy-l-request AT lists.ibiblio.org>

Henry,

Thank you for your welcome.

I ran into Percy a number of years ago when I was on the Peirce list, and I remember being impressed with the Trobriand Islanders and their pocket knives as being what philosophy, and science, should be all about.  Now reading Wittgenstein and trying to correlate him with Peirce, I thought of Percy again, and have been working through some of his articles.  To me he seems just as precise in his thinking as Peirce or Wittgenstein, but much less technical and much more down-to-earth in what he has to say about it.

The list does seem quiet, but I'm hoping it will offer some "intersubjective" support for these efforts.

Thanks again,

Tom

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