The Moviegoer
by Walker Percy · first published 1961
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Kate's desperate struggles to maintain her sanity force Binx to relinquish his dreamworld.
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"Revolutionary Road", by Richard Yates. Because it uncovers the greatest conspiracy of our time. Also "The Moviegoer" by Walker Percy, for the same reason. The real so called "mindfuck" comes when what you read unravels the reality around you, not when it sends you in some utopia with the promise of a metaphor built…
on “List of books that will induce a mindfuck” ↗You've never read Walker Percy's The Moviegoer. He writes eloquently about how we seem to believe that the only truly real people are those we see on the big screen and if by chance we come into contact with one, we often feel more alive...
on “Anybots is for real: Check out Trevor's robots on the Surrogates trailer” ↗Other existentialist works include: - "The Plague", by Albert Camus - "Metamorphisis", by Franz Kafka - "The Moviegoer", by Walker Percy - "The Bridge Over San Luis Rey", by Thornton Wilder I can't say they are enjoyable or relevant in the way Dostoevsky's books are.
on ““The Idiot” Savant: On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Idiot” ↗…aholt of God and would not let go until God identified himself and blessed him." He portrays a worldview known as the supernatural existential, desiderium naturale, or Man as Wayfarer in his book The Moviegoer explained here: http://liamk.org/moviegoer/
on “Why David Hume Is Popular Now” ↗I was wrong. My thinking seems to have been "I've seen that before; the British have a different term; ergo it's British." In fact, "neutral ground" was familiar from Walker Percy's novel The Moviegoer, which is set in New Orleans.
on “For 15 Years, New Orleans Was Divided into Three Separate Cities” ↗