03/14/2012
She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.
--Flannery O'Connor
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I love that story.
AMDG
Posted by: Janet | 03/14/2012 at 05:36 PM
I actually haven't read it for quite a long time, but I think of that line fairly often.
Posted by: Mac | 03/14/2012 at 08:12 PM
It's so exactly what I hoped for when I was little.
AMDG
Posted by: janet | 03/14/2012 at 08:36 PM
Shoot, I still...well, I can't say hope, exactly...but it sounds pretty good. PROVIDED.
Posted by: Mac | 03/14/2012 at 08:47 PM
Exactly.
AMDG
Posted by: janet | 03/14/2012 at 09:13 PM
Sort of the flip side to "She would of been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life," isn't it.
Posted by: Rob G | 03/15/2012 at 05:50 AM
Yes, applied to self instead of somebody else.
Posted by: Mac | 03/15/2012 at 09:20 AM
I read the story last night, btw. It is great. Several laugh-out-loud moments.
Posted by: Mac | 03/15/2012 at 09:22 AM
Yes, applied to self instead of somebody else.
Well, not exactly that. In one case you want to be shot, in the other, you are being good so you won't get shot.
AMDG
Posted by: Janet | 03/15/2012 at 09:42 AM
True. I just meant the aspect of being unable to be good on one's own, pointed out by another in the one case and recognized in the self in the other.
Posted by: Mac | 03/15/2012 at 09:46 AM
True.
AMDG
Posted by: Janet | 03/15/2012 at 10:29 AM