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105 “In college I read works”: FOC to Betty Hester, August 28, 1955, CW, 950.
105 “She was considered dangerous”: Cash, Flannery O’Connor, 66.
105 “My introduction to her”: Ana Pinkston Phillips, letter to the author, October 21, 2004.
106 “Could I interest”: MFOC, cartoon, Colonnade (November 9, 1943): 2.
106 “I had 3”: FOC to Janet McKane, January 27, 1964, HB, 564.
106 “I remember Flannery as outstanding”: Jane Strozier Smith, e-mail to the author, October 28, 2004.
106 “Master of Rotating Tops”: MFOC, “Doctors of Delinquency,” Corinthian (Fall 1943): 13.
106 “Tums and Ex-Lax”: MFOC, “Biologic Endeavor,” Corinthian (Spring 1944): 7, 8.
106 “until students quit school”: MFOC, “Education’s Only Hope,” Corinthian (Spring 1945): 15.
107 “old fashion wardrobe”: Elizabeth Wansley Gazdick, letter to the author, October 22, 2004.
107 “I was an art major”: Joan DeWitt Yoe, letter to the author, October 21, 2004.
107 “She was one of the most”: Helen Matthews Lewis, in discussion with the author, January 29, 2004.
107 “Well I know”: Mary Barbara Tate, “Flannery O’Connor: At Home in Milledgeville,” Studies in Literary Imagination 20, no. 2 (1987): 34.
107 “the smartest woman”: FOC to Betty Boyd, November 5, 1949, HB, 19.
107 “very carefully brought up”: Cash, Flannery O’Connor, 65.
107–108 “My survey of European History”: Helen I. Greene, “Mary Flannery O’Connor,” 44.
108 “Elms form a stately avenue”: Spectrum, 1943.
108 “Oh, what is so effervescent”: MFOC, “Effervescence,” Corinthian 18, no. 2 (Spring 1943): 16.
109 “My roommate and I”: Mary Elizabeth Anderson Bogle, letter to the author, October 17, 2004.
109 “Although the majority”: The Editor, “Excuse Us While We Don’t Apologize,” Corinthian (Fall 1944): 4.
110 “a lot of encouragin’”: Jean Wylder, “Flannery O’Connor, A Reminiscence and Some Letters,” North American Review 225, no. 1 (Spring 1970): 59.
110 “I thought then”: Bee McCormack, e-mail to the author, March 3, 2005.
110 “I like cartoons”: FOC to Janet McKane, August 27, 1963, CW, 1191.
110 “You can go jump”: Robert Fitzgerald, “Introduction,” Everything That Rises Must Converge (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965), xii.
110 “wonderful, merry cartoons”: Margaret Inman Meaders, “Flannery O’Connor: ‘Literary Witch,’” Colorado Quarterly 10, no. 4 (Spring 1962): 377.
111 “In the linoleum cuts”: Robert Fitzgerald, “Introduction,” Everything That Rises, xii.
111 “Mary Flannery decorated”: Greene, “Mary Flannery O’Connor,” 45–46.
111 “We were laughing”: Peggy George Sammons, e-mail to the author, October 25, 2004.
112 “Your quoting of a poem”: FOC to Janet McKane, December 13, 1963, HB, 554.
112 “a bit breathlessly”: Meaders, Flannery O’Connor, 381. Betty Boyd Love remembers FOC asking the question, in her briefer account in her “Recollections” draft, GCSU.
113 “humanizing the machine”: George W. Beiswanger, “The Dance and Today’s Needs,” Theatre Arts Monthly 19, no. 6 (June 1935): 440.
113 “I understand she says”: MFOC, cartoon, Colonnade (February 7, 1945): 4.
113The Making of the Modern Mind: The full title of this book by John Herman Randall, Jr., was The Making of the Modern Mind: A Survey of the Intellectual Background of the Present Age (Boston: Houghton, 1926).
113 “an academic best-seller”: Cash, Flannery O’Connor, 67.
114 “What kept me a sceptic”: FOC to Alfred Corn, May 30, 1962, CW, 1164–65.
114 “[He] is the one”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, Tuesday [Summer 1952], HB, 41.
114 “Philosophy class”: Helen Matthews Lewis, in discussion with the author, January 29, 2004.
114 “It was philosophical modernism”: Cash, Flannery O’Connor, 67.
115 “the hope for lasting peace”: “G.S.C. Graduates Hooded Monday,” Union-Recorder, June 14, 1945.
116 “The usual bunk”: Cash, Flannery O’Connor, 57.
116 “the realm of further study”: Colonnade (June 6, 1945): 2.
116 “Humph!”: Sally Fitzgerald, “Rooms with a View,” Flannery O’Connor Bulletin 10 (1981): 12.
CHAPTER FOUR: IOWA
117 Iowa Writers’ Workshop: The Workshop began