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

["Karl M. Terrell" <kterrell AT stokeswagner.com>]

I had finally gotten around, just before he died, to reading Cormac McCarthy. I read The Road, and have just started All the Pretty Horses.

I’m not an English scholar. I read Percy mainly for the following reasons, as stated in this description of the presentation for WALKER PERCY: THE NOVELIST'S ART at the recent Percy Weekend:

“In all of our discussions of Walker Percy’s philosophical ideas and moral convictions, we sometimes lose sight of his art as a novelist … We’ll celebrate Percy’s art as a storyteller, a powerfully acute observer, and a dazzling linguistic stylist.”

And it is in this spirit that I read and enjoy McCarthy, because he writes passages like this:

“Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”

Karl Terrell

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On Jun 16, 2023, at 12:26 PM, Michael Martin Serafin <michael_serafin AT hotmail.com> wrote:



Lot of tributes poring in for Cormac McCarthy. Did Percy and McCarthy ever cross paths? Considering Percy and Flannery O'Connor knew each other, and dark violence was a large part of O'Connor's fictional world, as was McCarthy's, that is why I ask the question.

Michael Serafin

 

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