Coming back from Passion Play rehearsal and blogging rather late, I apologize in advance for what this blog may be. However, I am truly enjoying The Second Coming; first, for the wit and humor (finally, a light hearted novel! I don't even know what to do with myself!) and second, because I am finally able to really see the "Percyisms" within it, as the connections between this novel and both The Moviegoer and Lancelot are much more obvious. It's full of excited underlining and commentary in the margins "Look! Here there be Jews!" "Hey, it's a literary reference other than Robinson Crusoe, kinda out of your element, Percy", etc.
One of my favorite sections of this work was the second conversation happening between Allie and Will, around page 108. Allie's phrasing of things, with every word carefully thought out, especially the combinations of words to form a unique word, such as "bloard" meaning "board and bored, meeting of her father's board which was boring because it bored into you" (111). These constant moments of hilarious wit make the book such a pleasure to read, while applying the questions of semantics we've been discussing in class. How much of language do we actually take for granted, along with the actual being of anything? Allie certainly doesn't take language for granted in any way, shape or form.
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