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When asked by locals what he did for a living, he would initially reply “writer,” which led to some rather awkward conversations. He then changed his reply to “nothing,” and reported (paraphrasing) that they “seemed to accept that pretty well.”
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On Mar 19, 2022, at 9:09 AM, lowry.charles AT gmail.com wrote:
He also said that he loved living in Covington because, though he had written a novel that won the National Book Award, he was less famous in Covington than the local Budweiser distributor. I suppose, a fortiori, that would apply as well to
the local Abita distributor.
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On Mar 19, 2022, at 8:27 AM, Karl M. Terrell <kterrell AT stokeswagner.com> wrote:
I’ve always enjoyed, against the background
of this quote from MG, Percy’s statement in an interview somewhere that he enjoyed living in a nondescript small town because it was “not a place.”
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On Mar 19, 2022, at 2:32 AM, Henry P. Mills III <wppdirector AT gmail.com> wrote:
Somewhere vs. Anywhere, a Percy quote for the community to enjoy:
"Panic in the Streets with Richard Widmark is playing on Tchoupitoulas Street….There is a scene which shows the very neighborhood of the
theater. Kate gives me a look—it is understood that we do not speak during the movie.
Afterwards in the street, she looks around the neighborhood. 'Yes, it is certified now.'
She refers to a phenomenon of moviegoing which I have called certification. Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place
is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live,
for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere."
—Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
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