Complete detachment or complete engagement - as Billy Joel observed, it all depends upon your appetite.. I am still making my way, rather too leisurely probably, through Walker Percy's marvelous novel The Last Gentleman (about which I will have much to say, since I corresponded with Mr. Percy while completing my first book, a novel, The…
Southerners have trouble ruling out the possible. What happens to a man to whom all things seem possible and every course of action open? Nothing of course.. - Walker Percy At long last the time has come to talk about Walker Percy's The Last Gentleman both on its own merits as a great Southern novel and…