LOVE that book. Heartily recommend it.
Christopher | Homepage | 04.30.07 - 2:13 pm | #

Thanks Mark!
Rufus McCain | Homepage | 04.30.07 - 2:28 pm | #

The core thesis of the book is that the human species is a failed, flawed collection of alienated and unlovely critters.

Anyone here feeling lovely, perfect and at home?

I've just been reading a book by an amateur archaeologist who specializes in the ancient Anasazi people of the US southwest. When that culture was on its way out it saw the sorts of heartless massacres of the innocent - the butchery and burning to death of women and children - that we remember from the Mongols, Nazis etc.

I used to know a woman who'd survived Auschwitz as a teen-ager. She was a nice person and never seemed bitter, but I've never seen anyone with fewer illusions about human beings.

I still think the Incarnation was a desperate expedient - as Lewis called it, a commando raid down into an Earth turned week-day Mordor.

It goes on and on, and bloodied Christ still suffers on the Cross.

First responders are the best of us.
Pavel Chichikov | Homepage | 04.30.07 - 2:35 pm | #

Lost in the Cosmos is a great book, hysterically funny, and all too true! Loved it when I read it about 20 years ago....will have to revisit. Especially since Walker Percy was fawned over by the NY Times when he wrote "The Movie-Goer," but became completely persona non grata when he wrote them anti-abortion letters.
robert r. | 04.30.07 - 3:11 pm | #

I loved that book! And I still have the original hardback that I bought when it first came out. Wallker Percy is still, and always will be, a favorite of mine.
Colleen | 04.30.07 - 3:36 pm | #

We read this book in our reading group a few months ago--great fun! St. Walker Percy--Pray for us!
Peter | 04.30.07 - 6:13 pm | #

One of my favorite books!

Peter Kreeft said it is one of the few books he would make everyone read. Read it now before Pete comes knocking at your door!
adolfo rodriguez | 04.30.07 - 8:52 pm | #