Phillip T. Stephens
My favorite fictional couple is the foursome from Walker Percy's Love in the Ruins. Dr. Thomas more and the none too happy to meet each other Ellen, Moira and Lola. Alas, he ends up with Ellen, a fierce Presbyterian woman determined to whip him into shape, rather than the passionate cellist Lola.
Still, chaining his hero to the rock of Sysiphellen, is more in keeping with Percy's existentialist undercurrents.
Interestingly, by the time he writes The Second Coming (the sequel to The Last Coming), Percy's MC Will Barrett—an aging lawyer and widower—is able to abandon the need for responsibility and take up with the off-center (and young) Allie.
Still, chaining his hero to the rock of Sysiphellen, is more in keeping with Percy's existentialist undercurrents.
Interestingly, by the time he writes The Second Coming (the sequel to The Last Coming), Percy's MC Will Barrett—an aging lawyer and widower—is able to abandon the need for responsibility and take up with the off-center (and young) Allie.
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