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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 00:49:53 -0500
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- From: esler@APOLLO.HP.COM
- Subject: Re: Vatican II and Eng Lit
- In-Reply-To: "Edward J. Branley"'s message (Re: Re: Vatican II and Eng Lit)
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- "Edward J. Branley" writes:
- >
- > Gee, the only novelist that I can say I know for sure is Catholic is
- Andrew
- > Greeley, and I don't know if I'd want to offer him as an example... <g>.
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- Ed,
- one of the great Catholic novelists of recent years lived his life
- in your neck of the woods: Walker Percy, who resided in Covington,
- until his recent death.
-
- As for Greeley, I'm not sure even he would call himself a novelist.
- I think he regards his stories as parables.
-
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- Kevin Esler //hewlett-packard/cso/stg/std/clo/mll (MA Language Lab)
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