Blog Profile / If Flannery Had A Blog
| URL : | http://flanneryoconnor.blogspot.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Academics / Literature | |
| Posts on Regator: | 51 | |
| Posts / Week: | 0.2 | |
| Archived Since: | March 2, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Pornography
Pornography...is essentially sentimental, for it leaves out the connection of sex with its hard purpose, and so far disconnects it from its meaning in life as to make it an experience for its own sake.-- The Church and the Fiction Writer, America Magazine, 1957 -- (found here).
Excerpt of Poem by Maxine Kumin
ON VISITING FLANNERY O'CONNOR'S GRAVE Milledgeville, Ga., 1988 --MAXINE KUMIN ...but first, an historic detour just this side of what the local intelligentsia in fond self-deprecation call Mudville o take the cart track up to Andalusia, he...Show More Summary
Grace and Sentiment
Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them. — Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. - Inside Catholic link
From Mystery and Manners
People without hope not only don't write novels...they don't read hem. They don't take long looks at anything... — via Ignatius Insight twitter feed
From Letter 3/10/56....
When we think about the Crucifixition, we miss the point if we don't think about sin. [Found here.]...
Via www.gaia.com....
Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe....
Explaining A Good Man is Hard to Find
Grace to the Catholic way of thinking, can and does use as its medium the imperfect, purely human, and even hypocritical. Cutting yourself off from Grace is a very decided matter, requiring a real choice, act of will, and affecting the very ground of the soul. Show More Summary
from "The Church & the Fiction Writer"
What the Catholic fiction writer must realize is that those who question [the faith] are not insane at all, they are not utterly foolish and irrelevant, they are for the most part acting according to their lights. What he must get over is that they don't have the complete light.
From 2/4/1961 Letter....
I measure God by everything I am not.
Letter from FOC:
The business of the broken sleep is interesting, but the business of sleep generally is interesting. I once did without it almost all the time for several weeks. I had high fever and was taking cortisone in big doses, which prevents your sleeping. Show More Summary
From The Habit of Being...
I am reading the [Simone] Weil books now, having finished the Letters to a Priest and I am very much obliged to you and will keep these books until you want them. I am struck by the coincidence (?) of title of Waiting for God, and Waiting...Show More Summary
O'Connor Blog for Spanish Readers
...is here....
Found here:
The Church’s stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her stands and with all of us being materialists at heart, there is little wonder that it causes unease. I wish various fathers would quit trying to defend it by saying that the world can support forty billion. Show More Summary
Another View of Recent Biography
Ralph C. Wood, author of "Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-haunted South" has a more critical view of the recent Gooch biography:Gooch lays O’Connor’s genuine distinctiveness to the side, and thus fails to bring her life into the sharp focus it demands. Show More Summary
Flannery quoted by Philip Yancey in Feb 2009 "First Things"
The Catholic writer, insofar as he has the mind of the Church, will feel life from the standpoint of the central Christian mystery: that it has, for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying for.
Wise Blood Excerpt
Pg 16 of Three by Flannery O'Connor, from the story Wise Blood:They were like stones! he would shout. But Jesus had died to redeem them! Jesus was so soul-hungry that He had died, one death for all, but He would have died every soul's...Show More Summary
One more from The Presence of Grace
Some of the most interesting parts of the book are hints thrown off in passing which show that attention to the study of archetypes could benefit the Church in some of the acute pastoral problems she faces today. In discussing the prevalent lapse of Catholics brought up in Catholic homes and educated in Catholic schools, Fr. Show More Summary
More from The Presence of Grace
He proposes in the place of that anguish that Gide called the Catholic’s ‘cramp of salvation’ — obsession with personal salvation — an anguish transmuted into charity, anguish for another. Thus for Sartre, ‘hell is other people,’ but for the Christian with Mauriac’s anguish others are Christ. Show More Summary
From The Presence of Grace
In genuine tragedy and comedy, the definite is explored to its extremity and man is shown to be the limited creature he is, and it is at this point of greatest penetration of the limited that the artist finds insight. Much modern so-called...Show More Summary
A Review: "Flannery: A Life" by Brad Gooch
Brad Gooch, in his biography of Flannery O'Connor, quotes his subject: "There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy." But Gooch proves that notion false with an absorbing biography of one of the most fascinating of 20th century writers. Show More Summary