Flannery O'Connor Quotes
I Don't Know How To Cure The Source-itis Except To Tell You That I Can Discover A Good Many Possible Sources Myself For Wise Blood But I Am Often Embarrassed To Find That I Read The Sources After I Had Written The Book. I Have Been Exposed To Wordsworth's "Intimation" Ode But That Is All I Can Say About It. I Have One Of Those Food-chopper Brains That Nothing Comes Out Of The Way It Went In. The Oedipus Business Comes Nearer Home. Of Course Haze Motes Is Not An Oedipus Figure But There Are The Obvious Resemblances. At The Time I Was Writing The Last Of The Book, I Was Living In Connecticut With The Robert Fitzgeralds. Robert Fitzgerald Translated The Theban Cycle With Dudley Fitts, And Their Translation Of The Oedipus Rex Had Just Come Out And I Was Much Taken With It. Do You Know That Translation? I Am Not An Authority On Such Things But I Think It Must Be The Best, And It Is Certainly Very Beautiful. Anyway, All I Can Say Is, I Did A Lot Of Thinking About Oedipus.
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