The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

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.