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  • From: "Henry P. Mills III" <wppdirector AT gmail.com>
  • To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [percy-l] Percy and Pope John Paul II - "Life is a mystery, love is a delight"
  • Date: Wed, 7 May 2025 20:25:32 -0400

"This life is too much trouble, far too strange, to arrive at the end of it and then to be asked what you make of it and have to answer “Scientific humanism.” That won’t do. A poor show. Life is a mystery, love is a delight. Therefore I take it as axiomatic that one should settle for nothing less than the infinite mystery and the infinite delight, i.e., God. In fact I demand it. I refuse to settle for anything less...."

--from "Walker Percy Interviews Himself"
https://mbird.com/literature/walker-percy-interviews-himself/


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Walker Percy and John Paul II by Bryan Bustard*
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/walker-percy-and-john-paul-ii-bryan-bustard.html?product=poster
(c) Bryan Bustard

*The photograph of Percy's meeting with the Pope in January 1988, on which this painting is based, is found in Pilgrim in The Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy (Jay Tolson, 1992).
Percy had come to the Vatican to participate in a meeting of the Pontifical Council for Culture. 

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Henry P. Mills III
Director, The Walker Percy Project




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