Walker Percy
Mere Comments mentioned the birthday of Walker Percy on May 28th. He would've been 90. I hope WP's in Heaven; I squirmed while recently reading about him joking about it with Foote in one of his letters: Percy: "Yeah: Percy, O'Connor and Foote. A fine trio. Two at least will never get to heaven." Foote responded, of course, that he was sorry to learn that Walker and Flannery O. wouldn't be joining him there.
A commenter on Mere Comments wrote: "What I find strange is that even some liberals like Percy. Makes me wonder if they are reading the same books as I am." Not to equate liberals with agnostics, but that reminds me of (I've written of this before) how a co-worker emailed me saying, "the first time I read Love in the Ruins (early '80's) I was a devout agnostic. As a recent convert to Catholicism (less than a year ago) I can say, without giving anything away, that it struck me *completely* differently when I recently reread it."
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