>
> Yes, that's what I was wondering (and hoping). I can see I wasn't
> clear.
> Thanks, Jim,
>
> Ken
>
Ooops! I gotta feeling that maybe you were clear to everybody but ole
Jimbo here. Anyway I sent your post to a friend who says Eliot is more
real to her than I am, so I'm curious what she's gonna say.
BTW, Patrick I read that O'Connor comment on the English professor. Yeah
I love em both too. I just think it's too different things. Being a
writer is great, creative and all but being a critic and a reader is
something else. Much more common for one thing. I personally don't find
judgmental criticism all that interesting or useful but I greatly enjoy
interpretive, speculative and analytical criticism. And while I greatly
respect what a writer says she or he intends, I'm also interested in how
readers respond. I kinda liked what the professor had to say. I think
he might be right. Maybe O'Connor imagined the whole thing herself. I
mean both the first half and the second. Can you imagine the poor,
kindly professor when he got her comments back. Kinda embarrassing
wouldn't you imagine.
Did I tell you folks I work with someone who tells me he went to church
with the O'Connors as a kid. Spoke of Flannery (his mother's age) as
very nice and said that Flannery's mother was considered a very
influential person at Chruch. Whatever that means.
Cheers,
Jim
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