“I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.” ― Flannery O'Connor
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/315733-i-write-because-i-don-t-know-what-i-think-until
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- Apr 2024
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Deluxe Noiseless on display at MarjorieK innan Rawlings’s screened frontporch at Cross Creek, Florida; Flan-nery O’Connor’s 1930s Royal Stan-dard; Faulkner’s famed UnderwoodUniversal; Hemingway’s 1940 RoyalArrow; and the tiny, folding CoronaNo. 3 favored by both Ernie Pyle andIsak Dinesen.
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- Jul 2021
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https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/writing-a-life
Jacobs suggests taking the idea of "walking a mile in another's shoes" to a higher level. He takes Herman Hesse's idea in The Glass Bead Game of the Castalian community's writing a Life in which people write an autobiography about seeing themselves placed in other times/places in history.
Similar examples he includes:
- Flannery O'Connor's story "Revelation" in which a woman chooses being remade as "white trash" or a Black woman.
- Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin (1961)
- White Like Me, a Saturday Night Live skit featuring Eddie Murphy
- Soul Sister by Grace Halsell
- Rachel Dolezal passing as black because she felt it was her identity
- John Rawls' "veil of ignorance"
Jacob suggests this could be a useful exercise for people to attempt, particularly as a senior exercise for university students.
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- Mar 2017
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You have only got to figure to yourselves a girl in a bedroom with a pen in her hand. She had only to move that pen from left to right-from ten o'clock to one.
Flannery O'Connor appears to fit the profile.
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- Jan 2017
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The church is made up of imperfect pilgrims on a long, difficult journey, and O’Connor described them well
The pilgrim essential to the understanding of O'Connor
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