From: "Tommy Armstrong" <tfa AT brickengraver.com>
To: "'Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion'" <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: RE: [percy-l] citation request (plus a book recommendation)
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:30:49 -0500
I can't remember where I found it but I deal with
"scientists" a lot and thought good signature. It was on the walker percy
website some where I think as I remember copying and
pasting.
'To be born and to live is to be dislocated.'"
Pascal
From: percy-l-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:percy-l-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of
JHForest AT cs.com Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 4:25
AM To: percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org Subject: [percy-l] citation
request (plus a book recommendation)
In a message dated 1/19/2005 7:49:19 AM W. Europe
Standard Time, tfa AT brickengraver.com writes:
"Science is extraordinarily stupid about people as people and the
consequence of this stupidity is going to do us all in if we don't do
something about it"
Walker Percy
Could someone post the citation
for the above quote? It's very timely.
Along these lines, let me mention
that there's a book by Thomas Merton, a writer Walker Percy greatly admired,
that explores this theme: "Peace in the Post-Christian Era." It was written 40
years ago but the head of Merton's order (he was a Trappist monk) banned its
publication. At last it's in print and still quite a fresh read. The publisher
is Orbis. The book's foreword is posted at this
URL:
* * * Jim Forest Kanisstraat 5 / 1811 GJ Alkmaar / The
Netherlands e-mail: jhforest AT cs.com Orthodox Peace Fellowship web site:
http://www.incommunion.org Jim & Nancy Forest web site:
http://incommunion.org/forest-flier/ * * *
The Wormwood File:
E-Mail from Hell At the end of C. S. Lewis' Screwtape Letters (1941), the
recipient of those missives on the art of temptation, the junior demon
Wormwood, was in a pickle -- indeed, might become a pickle, so to speak, for
his uncle-advisor's hellish delectation. Jim Forest reveals that
Wormwood survived and now advises yet-more-junior tempters, including
one Greasebeek, whose first case is the subject of these e-mails. The
"client" is a young married man who, when the correspondence begins, has
bought a Gregorian chant CD. Not to worry, says Wormwood; most who buy
such things "barely listen to what is being sung" and even "give up
on Christianity simply because the music in actual churches doesn't
measure up." Besides, the client disfavors "organized religion": "What a
useful phrase that's been!" Wormwood crows. But, as in Lewis' classic, things
go from bad to better for the client. As they do, Wormwood's comments
on both contemporary spiritual fashions and age-old temptations
illuminate by contrast the strengths of orthodox Christian belief. A worthy
sequel to a perdurable popular-theology masterpiece. -- Booklist review by
Ray Olson
* * *
the introduction and several of Wormwood's e-mails
are on the web
at: