This page is not officially connected to Miss O'Connor. Just a page started by a fan. There aren't enough real Flannerys, so we got to have an artificial one.
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- Location:
- Milledgeville, GA
- Birthday:
- March 25, 1925
Gayle Somers "I have found that violence is strangely capable of returning my characters to reality and preparing them to accept their moment of grace... This idea...is one which is seldom understood by the casual reader, but it is one which is implicit in the Christian view of the world." Flannery O'Connor
Amy Wilkinson Glover The air was cold, but the bluegrass was HOT at Andalusia tonight :)
Gayle Somers
"She
would have been a good woman if it had been
somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life." The Misfit, A Good Man is
Hard to Find
Flannery O'Connor "She had never been kissed before and she was pleased to discover that it was an unexceptional experience and all a matter of the mind's control. Some people might enjoy drain water if they were told it was vodka." --Good Country People
Flannery O'Connor The barber's face lightened. "You're a lawyer, ain't you?" he asked. "No," the boy said sullenly. "I'm a writer." "Ohhh," the barber murmured. "I know it must be something like that." After a moment he said, "What you written?"--The Partridge Festival
Flannery O'Connor "You needn't act as if the world had come to and end," he said, "because it hasn't. From now on you've got to live in a new world and face a few realities for a change. Buck up, " he said, "it won't kill you." --Julian in 'Everything that Rises Must Converge'
Sharon Nemeth "He wore his isolation like a mantle, wrapped it around himself as if it were a garment signifying the elect." (narrator about Francis Marion Tarwater)
Craig Amason
Bluegrass at Andalusia has been rescheduled for November 7, from 6 to 9 p.m. Check it out at http://andalusiafarm.org/news_events/blu
Sharon Nemeth Wonder what Flannery would say about FaceBook. Whenever I see someone with an ipod I think about Francis Marion Tarwater's assessment of Rayber in the Violent Bear it Away with his "head wired up." It 's always made me steer clear of ipods... Anybody feel the same:-)?
Patricia
"To Calhoun, the girl's face seemed to mirror the nakedness of the sky. In despair he leaned closer until he was stopped by a miniature visage which rose incorrigibly in her spectacles and fixed him where he was. Round, innocent, undistinguished as an iron link, it was the face whose gift of life had pushed straight fo...rward to the future to raise festival after festival. Like a master salesman, it seemed to have been waiting there from all time to claim him." -- The Partridge FestivalRead More
Flannery O'Connor
"Every day I say a prayer of thanksgiving," Mrs. Cope said. "Think of all we have. Lord," she said and sighed, "we have everything"...Mrs. Pritchard studied the woods. "All I've got is four abscess teeth," she remarked. "Well, be thankful you don't have five," Mrs. Cope snapped..."We might all be destroyed by a hurrica...ne. I can always find something to be thankful for." -- A Circle in the FireRead More
Lorraine Murray Flannery O'Connor: "The Catholic writer, in so far as he has the mind of the Church, will feel life from the standpoint of the central mystery: that it has for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying for."
Mike I just read a short piece on O'Connor I can't remember where, but it referred to how she used her "Catholic X-ray vision" to analyze the south. Sometimes it's like that, for someone able to stand outside of his own life because he can enter the eternity of sacramental reality.
