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To: average joe who wrote (3804)	1/1/2007 9:30:07 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5290

Walker Percy poses several questions in his non-fiction book The Message in the Bottle. Here are a few. Why do people often feel bad in good environments and good in bad environments? Why do people often feel so bad in good environments that they prefer bad environments? Why does a man often feel better in a bad environment? Why is a man apt to feel bad in a good environment, say suburban Short Hills, New Jersey, on an ordinary Wednesday afternoon? Why is the same man apt to feel good in a very bad environment, say an old hotel on Key Largo during a hurricane? Why have more people been killed in the twentieth century than in all other centuries put together? Why is war man's greatest pleasure? What would man do if war were outlawed? Why is that the only time I ever saw my uncle happy during his entire life was the afternoon of December 7, 1941, when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor? Why did he shortly thereafter become miserable when he learned that he was too old to go to Europe to shoot at Germans and stand a good chance of being shot by Germans? Why is it that the only time he was happy before was in the Argonne Forest in 1918 when he was shooting at Germans and stood a good chance of being shot by Germans? Why was he sad from 1918 to 1941 even though he lived in as good an environment as man could devise, indeed had all the best of all possible worlds in music, literature, and art?