why I don't get Walker Percy (qua novelist)

Jeremy Beer, writing at the Front Porch Republic:

A friend of mine once opined, to a group of college students: "There are two groups of people who don’t get Walker Percy: 1. Well-brought-up Catholic boys from large families. 2. All women."

I don't know about "well-brought-up," but hopefully my having been born into a large family means that there is some wonderful secret drama in Percy's novels that I have been missing all along. (I do like his essays and the essayish portions of some of his novels.) This, at least, encourages me to attend the screening at Xavier. I think liking Cormac McCarthy and Kierkegaard and my total lack of respect for feminine intuition -- not to mention having done some occasional overconfident anti-porn blogging -- should get me some street-cred with the cutting-edge Korrektivist Catholic men who celebrate Percy's literary talent.

P.S. Impossible to mention Beer without linking again to his great review of Tracey Rowland's Culture and the Thomist Tradition.