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walker Percy

“The Loss of the Creature,” by Walker Percy examines how society “preformulates” a way for individuals to experience specific events and how, through this “preformulation,” the individual is no longer an individual but a consumer who consumes these ideas by the experts of these events. Thereby, the individual gives up his/her right to sovereignty of his/her own life experiences. One passage in Percy’s essay that gave me the opportunity to see something I had not see before is in his representation of the misguided tourists as the “overanxious mother.”
“Are they like Fabre, who gazed at the world about him with wonder, letting it be what it is; or are they not like the overanxious mother who sees her chil...

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