From: "RHONDA MCDONNELL" <rhonda_mcdonnell AT msn.com>
To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [percy-l] FWD: walker percy and dissociative fugue/amnesia
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 20:56:49 -0700
Welcome to the list, Chuck.
Hope you enjoy Lancelot--Without it, The Second Coming wouldn't be
possible, I think, as it represents a sort of philosophical victory for Percy
which TSC depends on.
Subject: Re: [percy-l] FWD: walker percy
and dissociative fugue/amnesia
Yes, Williston Bibb Barrett, to be
precise. In The Last Gentleman there is a lengthy description--a dozen
pages or so--of his mental condition before his name is even mentioned.
I only know this because The Last Gentleman is the latest novel I
read. Having said that, I note that I am a new (three or four days)
member of this list. I was sternly admonished by the anonymous
listmaster to introduce myself to the list.
I'm afraid there is not
much: I'm in the professional publishing business in New York, I live in
Brooklyn with a wife and a couple of children, I'm an ordinary middle-aged
(well, if I'm going to live to 108, I'm exactly at middle age), middle class,
fairly conservative Catholic whose Latin skills are somewhat above the average
of the general population and whose mechanical skills are considerably below
that of the general population.
I came to WP through a co-worker who
told me at a job interview that Walker Percy was her favorite author and The
Moviegoer was her favorite novel; she was a fairly recent college graduate, an
English major, and I could think of nothing else to ask. My curiosity
was piqued and I read The Moviegoer, and then The Second Coming. I was
hooked and read through them all, except Lancelot, which I picked up
today. Fortunately, the Jets and Giants are so frightful that they will
offer no plausible distraction for tomorrow's reading.
Chuck
Lowry Brooklyn, New York chaslow53 AT aol.com
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