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# Wednesday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/39839/
- Published: 2016-04-06T06:40:13.000Z
- Updated: 2016-04-06T06:40:13.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

![walker_percy](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/walker_percy-192x300.jpg)

How would a cat react if deprived of sleep? How does a car perform when deprived of oil? What happens to babies if no one holds them?

I don't know how the cat would react, but I bet it would grow highly irritable and eventually violent. The car, of course, would break down. And babies, I hear, lose all desire to eat if deprived of human affection.

This type of question–What would happen to X if starved of one of its most important elements–drove Walker Percy's fiction. But Percy applied the question to humans: What happens when people, either individually or as a culture, are deprived of religion? If we are spiritual beings, what happens when the spirit is suffocated?

Percy was a keen observer of the modern landscape and he saw into it deeply. He saw a modern existence that is devoid of meaning; lacking permanent things; without associations that instill meaning, like families are set up through the sacrament of marriage to instill stability and depth in the individual soul.