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: Jim Wesson <gypsyjimmy1 AT yahoo.com>
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: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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: Re: [percy-l] Group Read Suggestions??
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: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:35:32 -0700 (PDT)
it's a great idea.
jim
--- Lawrence Rhu <rhul AT gwm.sc.edu> wrote:
>
Count me in. I'd love to reread LITR (hopefully, as
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a starter in a progress through other Percy books),
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hear what people think about it, and share my
>
thoughts with them when time allows and they seem
>
worth an airing.
>
>
Larry
>
>
Lawrence F. Rhu
>
Associate Professor of English and Comparative
>
Literature
>
University of South Carolina
>
Columbia, SC 29208
>
Tel: 803 777 0144
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Fax: 803 777 9064
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Email: rhul AT sc.edu
>
>
>>> padraig AT well.com 09/19/05 1:28 PM >>>
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I am all for LITR! Let's us read.
>
Patrick
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>
On Sep 19, 2005, at 9:11 AM, Gray, Rich wrote:
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> After confessing to lurking, I want to second
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Steve and Tommy's
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> suggestions. Love in the Ruins would make a fine
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beginning to a
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> book-at-a-time discussion.
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>
>
> Rich Gray
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: Dye, Steve [
mailto:sldye AT bluegrass.org
]
>
> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 11:04 AM
>
> To: Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion
>
> Subject: Re: [percy-l] Group Read Suggestions??
>
>
>
> Having been a member of this list for several
>
years now, this is
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> the best suggestion I have heard. It certainly
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beats recent subject
>
> matter. I am one of the "lay" members but have
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read everything
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> Percy has written (am currently re-reading "The
>
Moviegoer", which I
>
> first read in 1973). I just happened to come upon
>
"Love in the
>
> Ruins" at a bookstore in New Orleans in 1988 and
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read it by the
>
> pool at what was then the Clarion Hotel on Canal
>
Street. It would
>
> not be an exaggeration to say that reading Percy
>
has changed my
>
> life. The first thing I thought of as I watched
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the events in New
>
> Orleans transpire that first few days was that it
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was right out of
>
> "Love in the Ruins". The odd thing is that
>
recently I had felt that
>
> "love in the Ruins" had become somewhat "passé"!
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: percy-l-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
>
[
mailto:percy-l-
>
> bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Tommy
>
Armstrong
>
> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 10:55 AM
>
> To: 'Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical
>
Discussion'
>
> Subject: [percy-l] Group Read Suggestions??
>
>
>
> I would very much like to do this--especially
>
since there are a lot
>
> more
>
> smarter people on this list than myself, and would
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very probably
>
> learn a
>
> great deal.
>
>
>
> What do you think Mr. Modrator?
>
>
>
> Come up with some very simple ground rules such as
>
a standard
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> subject line,
>
> a start time and schedule--"reasonable time" is
>
one of the
>
> operative phrases
>
> here, and the list could give their suggestions.
>
With POB all the
>
> novels
>
> were about the same length, but with Percy, some
>
would obviously
>
> take longer
>
> than others. I am not sure about the novels of
>
Percy and their
>
> pagination
>
> between different editions, but it did make for an
>
easier
>
> discussion if most
>
> were using the same edition or at least if there
>
was a cross
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> reference to
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> the quotation under discussion.
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>
>
> If it really got good, one could then compile all
>
the posts about
>
> the book
>
> under discussion into a master document.
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>
>
> The way it worked with POB was that pretty much
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anything was fair
>
> game as
>
> long as it came from the novel that was being
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read. Links to maps,
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> definitions, historical material, etc. etc.
>
>
>
> For example the recipe of a "Gin Fizz" in Love in
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the Ruins.
>
>
>
> Tommy Armstrong
>
> PO Box 484
>
> Lillington, NC 27546
>
>
http://www.brickengraver.com
>
>
>
> "If you're a big enough fool to climb a tree and
>
like a cat refuse
>
> to come
>
> down, then someone who loves you has to make as
>
big a fool of
>
> himself to
>
> rescue you."
>
> W Percy
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: percy-l-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
>
> [
mailto:percy-l-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
] On
>
Behalf Of Lawrence Rhu
>
> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 8:56 AM
>
> To: percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org
>
> Subject: Re: [percy-l] Group Read --has it been
>
done?
>
>
>
> Hello to all,
>
>
>
> I think is would very interesting to work through
>
the novels at a
>
> reasonable
>
> pace as a sort of on-line/list reading group. As
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for the non-
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> fiction, that
>
> strikes me as harder to organize for such a
>
discussion group.
>
>
>
> Also, for any of you out there who are looking to
>
write conference
>
> papers
>
> about Percy, there is an annual comp lit
>
conference at USC
>
> (Columbia) in
>
> February. Its topic this year is "Cultures of
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Evil and the
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> Attractions of
>
> Villainy," which may make the experience of Tom
>
More particlarly
>
> relevant.
>
> Would any of you be interested in putting together
>
a panel on the
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> two More
>
> novels and other relevant writings by Percy?
>
>
>
> Larry
>
>
>
> Lawrence F. Rhu
>
> Associate Professor of English and Comparative
>
Literature
>
> University of
>
> South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208
>
> Tel: 803 777 0144
>
> Fax: 803 777 9064
>
> Email: rhul AT sc.edu
>
>
>
>
>
>>>> tfa AT brickengraver.com 09/17/05 1:53 PM >>>
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>>>>
>
> I was just wondering if anything like that had
>
been done on the
>
> Percy List.
>
> I was once a member of a Patrick O'Brian list and
>
they did a "group
>
> read" of
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> all of the Canon of 22 books that POB wrote--1
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each two months if I
>
> remember. Would this be an appropriate use of this
>
list. We used a
>
> kind of a
>
> standard subject line, such as "GroupRead Master
>
and Commander" so
>
> that
>
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[percy-l] off topic but then back to LitR
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Teresa, 09/26/2005
Re: [percy-l] off topic but then back to LitR
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RHONDA MCDONNELL, 09/28/2005
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