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

[Justin Bonanno <bonannju AT gmail.com>]

Henry,

Many thanks to you for the details about the other collections at Loyola-New Orleans and The University of Texas Harry Ransom Center. I didn't know about these. This is very helpful! I will also be sure to check out The Walker Percy Project. 

Lauren,

I will definitely check out the "conciliatory principle." As for David Bohm, a communication scholar that I respect and admire (Corey Anton) teaches Bohm's On Dialogue, though, I haven't read it yet myself.

Thank you both!

Justin 

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   1. Percy Collections (Henry P. Mills)
   2. Re: Percy Collections (Lauren Berdy)


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Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2019 12:08:53 -0400
From: "Henry P. Mills" <wppdirector AT gmail.com>
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Subject: [percy-l] Percy Collections
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Justin,

Thank you for introducing yourself to the list and for sharing information about your interesting dissertation topic.  Yours is a complex subject, for certain, and I wonder if Percy-1990 would not be inclined toward a ?Lost in the [Internet] Cosmos? approach.  As for a 2019 Percy, that is an intriguing idea to explore, especially when you consider how many ways language and its use have changed since the advent of the Internet.

If it proves of assistance, on The Walker Percy Project you can find descriptions of and links to the various Percy collections, including Loyola-New Orleans and The University of Texas Harry Ransom Center, alongside UNC-CH.  I believe the Loyola Collections are quite ripe for new and productive research, given that they contain a collection of materials donated to the library by the Percy family, as well as a collection provided from Patrick Samway, S.J., which includes his research related to his biography of Percy.

http://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy/collections <http://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy/collections>

Best of luck with your valuable line of inquiry.
Sincerely,

Henry Mills
Director, The Walker Percy Project
Percy-L Administrator
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Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2019 13:50:08 -0400
From: Lauren Berdy <lauren.stacy.berdy AT gmail.com>
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Dear Justin
I have looked over the Dr shoulders
And learned some mighty remarkable
Things about what it is to be a human
Being
What a surprise to nod ones head
In recognition to the ultimate search
He was ultimately a good diagnostician
And didn?t get too mad at us
He knew
We exist beside ourselves
We are onstage
We always enter thru a portal
Of our own making
The strategy each of us has one
We mostly eavesdrop and use second hand
Thoughts
Our aspirations
We don?t really enter into eachother
We bump along parallel
Although grace is always
Available
May I recommend his book
The Second Coming
The conciliatory principle of
Language is present and
Accounted for
Two people meet and hear and
Touch and notice eachother
And the world around them
They are for eachother and fir
The world
Language does that
It?s conciliates the unity
It?s the mechanism we have
To communicate with one another
Mostly we aren?t doing a very
Good job of that
Good luck
Read Dr David Bohm on Language
duality is the problem






We eavesdrop using second hand
Thoughts





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> On Jul 7, 2019, at 12:08 PM, Henry P. Mills <wppdirector AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Justin,
>
> Thank you for introducing yourself to the list and for sharing information about your interesting dissertation topic.  Yours is a complex subject, for certain, and I wonder if Percy-1990 would not be inclined toward a ?Lost in the [Internet] Cosmos? approach.  As for a 2019 Percy, that is an intriguing idea to explore, especially when you consider how many ways language and its use have changed since the advent of the Internet.
>
> If it proves of assistance, on The Walker Percy Project you can find descriptions of and links to the various Percy collections, including Loyola-New Orleans and The University of Texas Harry Ransom Center, alongside UNC-CH.  I believe the Loyola Collections are quite ripe for new and productive research, given that they contain a collection of materials donated to the library by the Percy family, as well as a collection provided from Patrick Samway, S.J., which includes his research related to his biography of Percy.
>
> http://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy/collections
>
> Best of luck with your valuable line of inquiry.
> Sincerely,
>
> Henry Mills
> Director, The Walker Percy Project
> Percy-L Administrator
> www.ibiblio.org/wpercy
>
>
>
>
>
>> On Jul 2, 2019, at 10:33 AM, Justin Bonanno <bonannju AT gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Thank you for providing Patrick Connelly's email, Rich! It is much appreciated.
>>
>> And thank you for the advice on reading Percy's marginalia, Rhonda. My dissertation will focus on the implications of Percy's triadic theory of communication for the field of speech communication. The dissertation is in an early stage at the moment. While I'm still searching for the "question," as it were, in the least I'm wondering, "If Percy was alive today, given the electronic milieu, would he still use the novel as his medium of communication to convey his philosophical ideas?"
>>
>> -Justin
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>>> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 22:56:45 +0000
>>> From: "Gray, Rich" <RGray AT montreat.edu>
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>>> I know that Patrick Connelly, chair of History at Mississippi College, included Percy?s ideas in his dissertation.  Dr. Connelly visited UNC Chapel Hill library to see the Percy Collection.  He can be contacted by email: plconnelly AT mc.edu<mailto:plconnelly AT mc.edu> .
>>> I?m glad you are writing on Percy.  Plenty of new research can be done on his work.
>>>
>>> Rich Gray
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>>> Percy?s marginalia in his books can be as helpful as the papers in the collection, so take some time with those. What is the general gist of your dissertation?
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> Rhonda
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> On Jun 28, 2019, at 3:30 PM, Justin Bonanno <bonannju AT gmail.com<mailto:bonannju AT gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I hope this message finds you well. My name is Justin Bonanno. I'm a PhD candidate at Duquesne University in the Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies.
>>>
>>> I'm planning to write my dissertation on Walker Percy, and I hope to visit the Percy Collection at UNC Chapel Hill at some point during the dissertation process. I have a few questions that perhaps some of you may be able to answer:
>>>
>>> - Does anyone have any advice on visiting the Collection?
>>> - Does anyone know about any scholarships or grants available for scholars working to extend Percy's work?
>>>
>>> God bless,
>>> Justin
>>>
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>>> Duquesne University
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