The Washington Post, May 14th, 1987
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. -"The Moviegoer" (1961) Walker Percy, the novelist, sits in a restaurant with his buddies eating white chunks of fried catfish and washing them down with 100-proof Jack Daniel's on the rocks. The catfish is steaming hot and they drink the bourbon out of big tumbler glasses. It is an ordinary Wednesday afternoon. As the talk ranges over basketball, politics and sex, Percy's friends-his brother Phinizy, a surgeon, a real estate man, a business executive, a car dealer-seem distinctly unawed by his s...
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