William Caverlee Quotes
Without Ever Leaving Her Hide-out In Milledgeville, Georgia, Flannery O'Connor Knew All There Was To Know About The Two-lane, Dirt And Blacktop Southern Roads Of The 1950s - With Their Junkyards And Tourist Courts, Gravel Pits And Pine Trees That Pressed At The Edges Of The Road. She Knew The Slogans Of The Burma Shave Signs, Knew The Names Of Barbecue Joints And The Chicken Baskets On Their Menus. She Also Knew A Backwoods American Cadence And Vocabulary You'd Think Was Limited To Cops, Truckers, Runaway Teens, And Patrons Of The Teardrop Inn Where At Midnight Somebody Could Always Be Counted On To Go Out To A Pickup Truck And Come Back With A Shotgun. She Was A Virtuoso Mimic, And She Assimilated Whole Populations Of American Sounds And Voices, And Then Offered Them Back To Us From Time To Time In Her Small Fictional Detonations, One Of Which She Named, In 1953, "A Good Man Is Hard To Find.
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