For most of the years we’ve been recording the Good Story podcast, Julie and I have invited a guest to join us on our opening episode. This year we invited Cy Kellett, the host of Catholic Answers. I was thrilled that he agreed! I wanted to meet him for a few reasons. First, I’ve been listening to Catholic Answers for years and respect the guy a lot. Second, he wrote a great science fiction novella called Ad Limina about a bishop on Mars making his way to Earth for his ad limina visit. I wanted to let him know how much I enjoyed that. And third, he brought a book by Walker Percy to the podcast, and Percy is an author that has been on my radar for a very long time, but that I never picked up. Now I have, and I’m happy I did.
The Thanatos Syndrome is a remarkable book. It’s Walker Percy’s sixth and last novel. The main character is Dr. Tom More, who has returned to the world after two years in prison. He’s a psychiatrist who notices strange connected behaviors among his patients. He investigates, and this leads to a story in which Percy touches on freedom, sin, loss of meaning in life and in words, and the mystery of humanity. Highly recommended!
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