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Re: [percy-l] Walker Percy's The Moviegoer, Seen Again by Paul Elie (Podcast)
- From: Thomas Gollier <tgollier AT gmail.com>
- To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [percy-l] Walker Percy's The Moviegoer, Seen Again by Paul Elie (Podcast)
- Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 08:51:44 -0800
Lauren,
I liked your message in response the Paul Elie's lecture. Binx does find love, an I-Thou relationship, but what I
liked about 'The Moviegoer' was where he found it. Paul Elie says:
His sense of what a writer does — and this owed in part to his philosophy and in part to a southern upbringing
— was that communication is intersubjective. You don't write for yourself, you write to reach another
person, and it takes two to make a truth and then you dick over that truth, and you figure something else out.
So his philosophical essays were diminished by the lack of an audience.
Binx finds love, as Walker Percy finds truth, in 'everydayness'. The search for Binx leads to and back from the
movies and Aunt Emily's cultural mores, like for Percy it leads him to and back from semiotic and existential
I liked your message in response the Paul Elie's lecture. Binx does find love, an I-Thou relationship, but what I
liked about 'The Moviegoer' was where he found it. Paul Elie says:
His sense of what a writer does — and this owed in part to his philosophy and in part to a southern upbringing
— was that communication is intersubjective. You don't write for yourself, you write to reach another
person, and it takes two to make a truth and then you dick over that truth, and you figure something else out.
So his philosophical essays were diminished by the lack of an audience.
Binx finds love, as Walker Percy finds truth, in 'everydayness'. The search for Binx leads to and back from the
movies and Aunt Emily's cultural mores, like for Percy it leads him to and back from semiotic and existential
philosophy, to where it began. I like to think Percy didn't sweat "the lack of an audience" for either his
philosophical essays or his literary novels. He was speaking to neither philosophers nor critics but to individuals
living in their 'everydayness'. And to what can be found there. It's not surprising he had to be back-doored into
the National Book Award and literature, and too bad that hasn't quite happened with philosophy.
Thanks,
Tom
Thanks,
Tom
On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 6:49 AM Lauren Berdy <lauren.stacy.berdy AT gmail.com> wrote:
I listened carefully.It was the crucial act of Dr PercyAt least for these eyes to showus the desolate decline of loveIn the world.AndShowing us the daring adventure ofHuman relationsThe quicksand of our mentalPossessivenessAnd that self possession can beRestoredEven the Moviegoer filled withdeep life illusions Ends with anI and a thouWe are that I and thouThat’s the mysteryIt’s nuff for this one readerReread“Allie and Will“ dialoguesPoems of illuminationOut of the dark cave into the illumined light of love.“ deep might call unto deep”Sent from my iPhoneOn Jan 8, 2020, at 12:05 AM, Henry P. Mills <wppdirector AT gmail.com> wrote:Dear Percy-L:Perhaps this recent, close revisit to The Moviegoer by Mr. Elie could be a good start to 2020. As always, comments to the community are welcome. Enjoy!Henry MillsPercy-L Administrator_________________________________________________Walker Percy's The Moviegoer, Seen Again by Paul ElieThis lecture by Prof. Paul Elie (Georgetown) was given as part of "The Moral Imagination of the Novel", a conference held at Columbia University on 4-5 October 2019.
The conference was co-hosted by the Morningside Institute, Columbia University's Department of Philosophy, and the Thomistic Institute.
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[percy-l] Walker Percy's The Moviegoer, Seen Again by Paul Elie (Podcast),
Henry P. Mills, 01/08/2020
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Re: [percy-l] Walker Percy's The Moviegoer, Seen Again by Paul Elie (Podcast),
Lauren Berdy, 01/09/2020
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Re: [percy-l] Walker Percy's The Moviegoer, Seen Again by Paul Elie (Podcast),
Thomas Gollier, 01/10/2020
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Re: [percy-l] Walker Percy's The Moviegoer, Seen Again by Paul Elie (Podcast),
Lauren Berdy, 01/10/2020
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Re: [percy-l] Walker Percy's The Moviegoer, Seen Again by Paul Elie (Podcast),
Charles Lowry, 01/10/2020
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honeyjbc1 ., 01/10/2020
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honeyjbc1 ., 01/10/2020
- Re: [percy-l] Walker Percy's The Moviegoer, Seen Again by Paul Elie (Podcast), Charles Lowry, 01/10/2020
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honeyjbc1 ., 01/10/2020
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Re: [percy-l] Walker Percy's The Moviegoer, Seen Again by Paul Elie (Podcast),
honeyjbc1 ., 01/10/2020
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Re: [percy-l] Walker Percy's The Moviegoer, Seen Again by Paul Elie (Podcast),
Charles Lowry, 01/10/2020
- Re: [percy-l] Walker Percy's The Moviegoer, Seen Again by Paul Elie (Podcast), Lauren Berdy, 01/10/2020
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Re: [percy-l] Walker Percy's The Moviegoer, Seen Again by Paul Elie (Podcast),
Lauren Berdy, 01/10/2020
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Re: [percy-l] Walker Percy's The Moviegoer, Seen Again by Paul Elie (Podcast),
Thomas Gollier, 01/10/2020
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Re: [percy-l] Walker Percy's The Moviegoer, Seen Again by Paul Elie (Podcast),
Lauren Berdy, 01/09/2020
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