Posted by Ritch on July 27, 2002, at 9:14:53
In reply to Re: August Book Suggestion Thread, posted by OddipusRex on July 26, 2002, at 10:05:01
> Everything That Rises Must Converge Short stories by Flannery O'Connor
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> "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?"
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> "No,"his mother said.
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> "Two or three shock treatments,"Mary George said. "Get that artist business out of his head once and for all."
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> His mother gave a little cry and he grasped for the banister.
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> "Mark my words,"his sister continued, "all he's going to be around here for the next fifty years is a decoration."
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> He went back to bed.
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> -from the Enduring Chill, one of my personal favorite stories.
Does this collection have the story about the waiting room in it? I have only read one of O'Connor's stories (in a lit class back in the early '80s). It is about all of these people waiting to see a doctor in a clinic. I can vaguely remember it, but I remember liking it a lot.Mitch
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