![]() In pursuance of his study of semiotics, he attended a conference on primatology in New York in May 1980 and spent the following month in Toronto at a seminar on language and semiotics. He says that if he had it all to do over again, he would study semiotics because he believes that study has the best chance of defining just exactly what it means to be human and to find oneself in predicaments so complex that theology, sociology, and psychiatry have provided, at best, only partial answers to the malaise which besets all of us, and which he has tried, for the last twenty years, to dramatize in his fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() Īs usual, Percy is honest and straightforward about his present work, and what he hopes to accomplish in the future. In his new book, to be called Novum Organum, he intends to set forth the model for what he calls "a radical science," which will provide a way of describing and talking about, rationally, what human consciousness is and how it is different from the other data scientists study. Walker Percy's fifth novel, The Second Coming, was published in July 1980, and although he says he "is not interested in it anymore" - he has put it away from him and is onto other things - one afternoon recently he talked with me about that novel, as well as his plans for a collection of essays on language, mass communication, and psychiatry. ![]()
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