His 1989 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities was titled "The Fateful Rift: The San Andreas Fault in the Modern Mind." He constructed a semiotic analysis of the way Hellen Keller learned the word "water" in his essay "The Delta Factor," which appears in his collection The Message in the Bottle. His other nonfiction includes Signposts from a Strange Land and a parody of self-help books, Lost in the 
His 1989 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities was titled "The Fateful Rift: The San Andreas Fault in the Modern Mind." He constructed a semiotic analysis of the way Hellen Keller learned the word "water" in his essay "The Delta Factor," which appears in his collection The Message in the Bottle. His other nonfiction includes Signposts from a Strange Land and a parody of self-help books, Lost in the Cosmos. Williston Barret falls in love with Kitty Vaught in his novel The Last Gentleman, and in his last novel, Dr. Tom More encounters a "curious flatness of tone" in Feliciana, where Dr. Comeaux is heavily dosing patients with sodium. He also wrote a novel about the Kierkegaardian quest of a New Orleans stockbroker more interested in books and film than the routine of his life. For 10 points, name this American author of The Thanatos Syndrome who wrote about Binx Bolling in The Moviegoer.
His 1989 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities was titled "The Fateful Rift: The San Andreas Fault in the Modern Mind."
Walker {Percy}