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Percy’s progress

Bill Binnings has nearly finished the textured clay statue of his friend Walker Percy. I remember one man who hitchhiked all the way from California to meet Walker Bill Binningsphilosophical literaturePhilosophyWalker Percy

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Walker Percy — born on this day

IMHO the greatest post-war writer in English and no slouch at philosophy either, each uniquely fused together. Without any doubt I’d put him up there with Kafka, Mann and Musil. The best (most elegant and most informed) biography of Percy is by the very excellent Patrick  Samway, S. J. Samway also by the way was…

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What To Wear In The Ruins

H/T to Rod Dreher Distilled especially to help one weather the existential fallout of Western civilization. Guaranteed 100% free of noxious particles. existentialismlove in the ruinsphilosophical literaturePhilosophyWalker PercyWalker Percy Weekend

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Oliver Letwin Reviews Oakeshott’s Notebooks

Oliver Letwin makes some elegant comments in The Spectator. And no, I for one would cringe at a statue of MO. The quotes below, especially the first, sound as if they came from the pen of Walker Percy. The Notebooks bring out this quality, letting us into some of the smouldering passions that lay behind…

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Why Study Philosophy?

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