FALL 2023
Posted in The Moviegoer on Sep 3rd, 2023
“REMEMBER TOMORROW, starting point for search: It no longer avails to start with creatures and prove God. Yet it is impossible to rule God out. The only possible starting point: the strange fact of one’s own invincible apathy-that if the proofs were proved and God presented himself, nothing would be changed. Here is the strangest […]
Posted in The Moviegoer, Uncategorized on Aug 31st, 2023
“I am hardly ever depressed by a movie and Jane Powell is a very nice looking girl, but the despair of it is enough to leave you gone in the stomach” (part 2, ch 2, pg 74) I chose this passage because it was very interesting to me how Binx’s form of escapism is starting […]
Posted in The Moviegoer on Aug 31st, 2023
Okay so I don’t really have any deeper analytical thoughts about the text sorry. To be honest my main impression so far is that Binx is an interesting individual who makes small talk with a lot of people. This may be just me, but I felt like we were introduced to a lot of side […]
Posted in The Moviegoer on Aug 31st, 2023
In “The Moviegoer” by Walker Percy, chapter 9 starts with the passage ” For some time now the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people. in the middle of a sentence it will come over me: yes, beyond a doubt this is death. There is […]
Posted in The Moviegoer on Aug 31st, 2023
“All movies smell of a neighborhood and a season: I saw All Quiet on the Western Front, one of my first, in Arcola, Mississippi, in August of 1941, and the noble deeds were done, not merely fittingly but inevitably, in the thick singing darkness of Delta summer and in the fragrance of cottonseed meal.” This passage in […]
Posted in The Moviegoer on Aug 31st, 2023
“For her too the fabric is dissolving, but for her even the dissolving makes sense. She understands the chaos to come. It seems so plain when I see it through her eyes. My duty in life is simple. I go to medical school. I live a long useful life serving my fellowman. What’s wrong with […]
Posted in The Moviegoer on Aug 30th, 2023
This section of The Moviegoer features Binx being awoken by the mailman delivering a letter from Harold Graebner. Binx says, “Harold Graebner probably saved my life in the Orient and for this reason he loves me.” (Page 87) This letter includes a birth announcement for Harold’s baby and a letter asking if Binx would like to be […]
Posted in A Streetcar Named Desire, Bellocq's Ophelia, The Awakening, The Moviegoer on Jun 6th, 2023