Because you absolutely needed to be introduced to the word "glossator."

And because reading this makes me wish both Bitkin and Elie had been there in New Orleans last October when everybody was discussing this precise point.

Something about Elie’s interpretation of the book strikes me as off, particularly when he claims that those who read it as “a conversion story” do so on “slender evidence.”

To me, the most compelling sign that Binx has begun to respond to divine grace is that he marries Kate. I believe the dénouement of The Moviegoer, ambiguous though it may be, gives us hope that Binx, who hitherto had, as Hans Urs von Balthasar writes, “enter[ed] into relationships answerable only to his own psychology’s principle of ‘this far and no further,'” has a chance, in his marriage, to “grow, beyond himself, into real love, by modeling his life on the form enjoined.”

Von Balthasar makes a splendid glossator for Percy, in fact.

The fun part is, now that Binx has a Facebook page, I suppose we could just go ahead and ask him.