Wood Flannery purity

elements of fiction writing - plot, character, point of view, and place
My good friend Bill sent me this lecture given by a Baptist preacher and teacher on purity, the most mysterious virtue, as found in Flannery O'Connor's "Temple of the Holy Ghost." Temple of the Holy Ghost This is the second commentary on literature I have allowed, and that is because it is most excellent. Generally, I want readers to reach their own conclusions. However, serious Catholics would do well to listen and learn.
Ralph C. Wood at Thomas International Center

Her happiest year was 12, pre-puberty, and mine was 14, post-puberty. Happiness doesn't mean blissful: it means having been found, an actuality caused not by me and manifested by the fact that not once have others seen me at Mass for having been told to go.
Also listen to her speak

• Flannery's grotesque
• flannery

​Or a southerner speak

• The Life You Save