You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

and Victor A. The Thanatos Syndrome. A Thief of Peirce: The Letters of Kenneth Laine Ketner and Walker Percy.

Percy is known for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans Louisiana the first of which The Moviegoer won the U. S. He devoted his literary life to the exploration of "the dislocation of man in the modern age.