The essay discussed here talks about how it can be hard to see something or appreciate something, like the Grand Canyon or Mexico or a dogfish. The author thinks that there are many things preventing us from seeing and appreciating things like this. His very interesting essay talks about these...

One of the fascinating features of Walker Percy’s “The Loss of the Creature” is the means by which he packaged his content. The story is more like an authoritative doctrine wherein any other point of view deserves no attention. Percy did not write anywhere among the pages that alternative opinions...

In his essay The Loss of the Creature, Walker Percy addresses the importance of adopting a more critical view on the reality that surrounds us. According to the author, we live in an artificial reality that is highly mediated and that we usually have very little influence on. Walker Percy...

The essay “The Loss of the Creature” deals with one of the most important, but often unremarked aspects of the modern world: the effect that this world has had on our ability to experience the things within it. The essay considers areas of life through which people either seek to...

There are seemingly innumerable ways in which our lives are mediated by the structures within which they exist. These structures effect the way in which we approach relationships, jobs, hobbies and even the most everyday objects. They especially affect so-called once in a life-time experiences which occur on planned trips...