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As requested by Angelico (ask and ye shall receive):
Letter from Flannery O’Connor to Walker Percy, dated 29 March 1962, from The Walker Percy Papers, UNC Chapel Hill Libraries.
Whoah!
Maybe not a first-class relic, but a first-rate find nonetheless. Thank you, Mr Potter, for the surprize.
I didn’t know people said ‘regards’ in 1962.
I still say “Huzzah” in 2011.
You also still say ‘Amen’ to the proposition that a frackin’ cracker is the Body of Christ.
I do – quietly, and sometimes desperately. Go figure.
To paraphrase another of Flannery’s letters, if it was only a ‘frackin’ cracker,’ “to hell with it.” But since it’s the “center of existence”, it’s a marvel we can say anything at all.
That relic would be lost if they had email back then.
More here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrmQB38aT5U
Give me William Shakespeare.
Great song, thanks JW.
‘Give me William Shakespeare.’
Hey, hey, hey! THAT’S WHAT I SAY!!!
Very cool, indeed.
Not that anyone was asking, but I seem to think there were at least two pieces of correspondence between O’Connor and J.F. Powers.
JOB
Always with the one-upmanship, aren’t you, Mr. Midwest?
Just sayin…
(He was the better writer qua writer. Go ahead – tell me differently.)
JOB
If by better you mean worse.
Haven’t gotten around to reading J.F. Powers yet myself, but TIM Powers should write a novel filling in the gaps in 20th-century Catholic writers’ biographies with paranormal secret history, connecting them all in one master plot. If it involves doppelgangers (maybe like O’Connor’s ‘The Crop’, but in reverse?), or alternate selves from time travel or divergent timelines (e.g., a Col. Walker Percy from a 20th century where the South had won the war and didn’t produce good literature), it could cast a new light on the phrase ‘the life you save may be your own’.
I smell screenplay.
A world where a project like this is commercially viable? That really would be an alternate reality.
I think it’s Mr. New Jersey. A true midwesterner would have too much good sense to care.
Did Allen Ginsberg ever write to O’Connor? Or Sinatra? Or Abbot and Costello?
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