tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-341911762011-04-21T17:57:58.299-07:00tfraine05http://www.blogger.com/profile/01681633205035487383noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34191176.post-1157946176175634592006-09-10T20:23:00.000-07:002006-09-10T20:42:56.183-07:00<span style="font-size:78%;">About him: there are blessings among hard ships, got to think, read, write and become famous (not as important) whiloe he was sick. Found new realm of enjoyment outside of his original goals</span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">This is an "academic form of argument" as opposed to "depen(ing) more on stories or anecdotes from daily life.</span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Proposting that seeing the Grand Canyon for the 1st time (ever, not even in a picture- as the Spaniard did when he discovered it) is far more amazing that "just seeing it"<em>End of p 469</em></span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"> -subject to comparison</span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"> -fulfillexpectations? does it?</span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">How can the sightseer recover the grand canyon? Recover here means seeing it for it's truest beauty possible. (I feel there is no way to gauge this completely...one can never know how or even what another person is feeling or seeing. This is left to Percy alone)</span><br /><em><span style="font-size:78%;">ways of recovering</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:78%;">1.)find different path</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:78%;">2.) step back - exploit fellow tourists! (be aware of how silly they are, taking pics @ 1st sight rather than soaking aything up in the PRESENT.Going with grain)</span></em><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><em> paragraph 3 on 470</em> this reminded me of offering ways of reading, it seems to parallelwith the "with" and "against" the grain idea</span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>3.) having it all to oneself</em></span><br /><em><span style="font-size:78%;">4.) seeing the view when it was totally unexpected</span></em><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Walker Percy is a pretty cool writer...I stayed awake for 99.9% of this piece.</span><br /><em></em><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34191176-115794617617563459?l=imfallingasleep.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>tfraine05http://www.blogger.com/profile/01681633205035487383noreply@blogger.com0