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Maybe Walker Percy’s rejection of the finality of “Scientific Humanism” is remembering his Uncle’s rejections of other secular finalities:
“After Fascism and Communism and Capitalism and Socialismare over and forgotten as completely as slavery and the old South, that same headstrong human heart will be clamoring for the old things it wept for in Eden – love and a chance to be noble, laughter and a chance to adore something, someone, somewhere.”
On Fri, May 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM <percy-l-request AT lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:
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* 1 - [percy-l] Percy and Pope John Paul II - "Life is a mystery, love is a
delight" - "Henry P. Mills III" <wppdirector AT gmail.com>
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From: "Henry P. Mills III" <wppdirector AT gmail.com>
Subject: [percy-l] Percy and Pope John Paul II - "Life is a mystery, love is a
delight"
"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
walkerpercyproject.org
wppdirector AT gmail.com
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