“For Percy, the transformative power of a hurricane lies not just in the immediate excitement, the break in routine it brings, but more so in a storm’s capacity to limit the range of human choice, its ability to deliver a whole city from the chaotic realm of the Possible back the unquestioning mode of the Necessary.”

Read more of Spencer Woodman on Walker Percy’s hurricane.

2:05 pm  •  6 November 2012  •  32 notes