Nikki,
I love all these little vignettes you relate about your interactions with Percy and Percy in his life. They aren't in Tolson or Samway, and they really add much to the picture of the man. When I went to the UNC archives and read the Percy papers, there were such interesting things in the notes that showed sides of him you don't get elsewhere - a couple of times in the immense pack of papers there were some exclamations of religious joy written down in one or two word exclamations that were completely opposite the picture you get from the biographies and his writings – that of a cool, analytical, stoic man who took his faith seriously but very intellectually.
Why don't you write all of these little stories down on paper, then bind the pages together in that thing we call a book? I bet a lot of people would buy it – at least one (me) would.
You could call it: Percy and me. Or: My Dinner[s] with Walker Percy Or: What Shelby Didn't Know. (Since apparently Shelby and Walker didn't talk about that stuff.) Or: My Walk with Walker.
OK, maybe you'd better be the one to name it.
Karey
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