Posted by OddipusRex on July 26, 2002, at 10:05:01
In reply to August Book Suggestion Thread, posted by susan C on July 15, 2002, at 19:03:02
Everything That Rises Must Converge Short stories by Flannery O'Connor
"You've got to face the facts: Asbury can't write so he gets sick. He's going to be an invalid instead of an artist. Do you know what he needs?""No,"his mother said.
"Two or three shock treatments,"Mary George said. "Get that artist business out of his head once and for all."
His mother gave a little cry and he grasped for the banister.
"Mark my words,"his sister continued, "all he's going to be around here for the next fifty years is a decoration."
He went back to bed.
-from the Enduring Chill, one of my personal favorite stories.
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