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  • From: lowry.charles AT gmail.com
  • To: "and Philosophical Discussion Percy-L: Literary Religious Scientific" <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [percy-l] Laissez les bons temps rouler!
  • Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:18:07 -0500

Happy Mardi Gras to one and all, and happy birthday (tomorrow) to Binx.

Several years ago I developed the habit of rereading The Moviegoer in the
couple days between Quinquagesima Sunday and Mardi Gras, or, more severely,
Shrove Tuesday. Each year, it seems, a different paragraph jumps out to grab
me. Here is 2026:

“Three o’clock and suddenly awake amid the smell of dreams and of the years
come back and peopled and blown away again like smoke. A young man am I,
twenty nine, but I am as full of dreams as an ancient. At night the years
come back and perch around my bed like ghosts.”

Binx, just marry Kate and go to medical school. And happy thirtieth birthday
tomorrow.

Chuck Lowry
Brooklyn, New York


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