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  1. Walker Percy _ Signposts in a Strange Land

    A minor cultural note: In my opinion, local Yankee racists are worse than Southern racists; they don't even like Uncle Toms and Aunt Jemimas. One can only wonder how Abraham Lincoln ever talked these people into fighting a war to free slaves. And the main difference between local country-clubbers {affluent, often Midwestern} and the local Klan {poor, Southern} is that the former tolerate Jews and Catholics, probably because there are so few Jews and the Catholics are generally as conservative as country-club WASPs.
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  2. Walker Percy _ Signposts in a Strange Land

    One can sniff the ozone from the pine trees, visit the local bars, eat crawfish, and drink Dixie beer and feel as good as it is possible to feel in this awfully interesting century. And now and then, drive across the lake to New Orleans, still an entrancing city, eat trout amandine at Galatoire's, drive home to my pleasant, uninteresting place, try to figure out how the world got into such a fix, shrug, take a drink, and listen to the frogs tune up.
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  3. Walker Percy _ Signposts in a Strange Land

    New Orleans may be too seductive for a writer.
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  4. Walker Percy _ Signposts in a Strange Land

    A writer worth his salt is probably better off in an adversarial relation with the U.S. Senate.
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  5. Walker Percy _ Signposts in a Strange Land

    a great culture is recognizable through its artists and its saints and not by its GNP.
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  6. Walker Percy _ Signposts in a Strange Land

    I prefer to live in the South but on my own terms. It takes some doing to insert oneself in such a way as not to succumb to the ghosts of the Old South or the happy hustlers of the new Sunbelt South.
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