She's a great fan of Thomas the Tank Engine. For those who don't know, there is a little green engine called Percy who appears in many of the Thomas stories.
As Matt was driving her to her Pop Pops's house the other night, he was telling her what he has been reading, as he often does. (We wonder why she converses as she does.) He said, "I've been reading a book by Walker Percy."
Her face lit up. "Percy! Percy and Thomas?"
"Well, no, honey," he replied. "Walker Percy was a southern agrarian author and --"
"Percy and Thomas! And Mavis! And Salty!"
And so begins the juvenilization of Walker Percy.
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