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154 “in my vague”: FOC to Elizabeth McKee, June 19, 1948, HB, 5.
154 “Your work sounds very”: Elizabeth McKee to FOC, June 23, 1948, GCSU.
155 “I don’t have my novel”: FOC to Elizabeth McKee, July 13, 1948, HB, 5.
155 “after a few weeks”: FOC to Betty Hester, August 4, 1962, CW, 1171–72.
155 “a real Yaddo ringer”: Robert Lowell to Elizabeth Bishop, January 5, 1949, Letters, 122.
156 “By the way”: Edward Maisel to Elizabeth Ames, “O’Connor Guest File,” Yaddo.
156 “She was completely”: Robert Giroux, in discussion with the author, Novem-ber 13, 2003.
156 “Do not make the absurd”: Jacques Maritain, Art and Scholasticism: With Other Essays (Art et Scolastique), translated by J. F. Scanlan (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1930), 54.
156 “Then you may count on”: Elizabeth Ames to FOC, July 26, 1948, “O’Connor Guest File,” Yaddo.
156 “I have worked with much”: FOC to Elizabeth Ames, July 27, 1948, “O’Connor Guest File,” Yaddo.
156 “Dear Flannery”: Wright, “Diary,” July 30, 1948.
156 “Dear Elizabeth”: FOC to Elizabeth Ames, August 17, 1948, “O’Connor Guest File,” Yaddo.
157 “I sleep in my coffin”: FOC to Paul Engle, August 25, 1948, “Papers of Paul Engle,” UI.
157 “It’s too hot”: FOC to Elizabeth Ames, August 17, 1948, “O’Connor Guest File,” Yaddo.
157 “ancient wealthy”: FOC to Clifford Wright, August 10, 1948, Wright, “Diary.”
157 “She was a brilliant”: Frederick Morton, in discussion with the author, Novem-ber 19, 2006.
157 “My love to you”: Elizabeth Ames to Elizabeth Hardwick, November 23, 1948, “Hardwick Guest File,” Yaddo.
157 “She seems to have”: Malcolm Cowley, “O’Connor Guest File,” Yaddo.
157 “hard to like”: Newton Arvin, ibid.
158On Native Grounds: Published by Harcourt, Brace in 1942.
158 “a thorny mysterious return”: Alfred Kazin, New York Jew (New York: Vintage Books, 1979), 312.
158 “It is beautiful”: FOC to Cecil Dawkins, September 6, 1962, CW, 1174.
158 “I cannot really believe”: FOC to Elizabeth McKee, July 21, 1948, HB, 6.
159 “Yaddo is a sort of”: Robert Lowell to Ezra Pound, [n.d., fall 1948], Letters, 114.
159 “pleasant”: Robert Lowell to Elizabeth Bishop, December 18, 1948, Letters, 120.
159 “an introverted and extroverted”: Ibid., October 1, 1948, Letters, 111.
159 “the friend of Moscow”: Malcolm Cowley, A Century at Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.: Corporation of Yaddo, 2000), 18.
159 “acute and silent”: Robert Lowell to Elizabeth Bishop, [n.d., fall 1948], Letters, 699.
159 “There’s a girl”: Robert Lowell to Caroline Gordon, [n.d. November 1948], Letters, 116.
160 “She fell for him”: Sally Fitzgerald, “Flannery O’Connor: Patterns of Friendship, Patterns of Love,” Georgia Review 52, no. 3 (Fall 1998): 415.
160 “I lost her”: Ibid.
160 “She wasn’t in love”: Robert Giroux, in discussion with the author, Novem-ber 13, 2003.
160 “I feel almost too much”: FOC to Betty Hester, April 21, 1956, CW, 992.
160 “I think one of the best”: Robert Lowell to Elizabeth Bishop, January 14, 1949, Letters, 704.
160 “I watched him that winter”: FOC to Betty Hester, April 21, 1956, CW, 992.
160 “Christ-haunted”: FOC, “The Catholic Novelist in the Protestant South,” CW, 861; in Wise Blood, O’Connor writes, of Haze, “Later he saw Jesus move from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to turn around and come off into the dark,” CW, 11.
160 “Cal Lowell says”: Caroline Gordon to Brainard Cheney, February 4, 1953, Frances and Brainard Cheney Collection, Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University, Nashville.
160 “It seems such a short time”: Robert Lowell to Elizabeth Bishop, August 10, 1964, Letters, 452–53.
161 “She’s run through the local”: Robert Lowell to Robie Macauley, [n.d., fall 1948], Letters, 699–700.
161 “I read it about ten”: FOC to Betty Hester, August 24, 1957, HB, 237.
162 “habit of the practical”: Maritain, Art and Scholasticism, 9.
162 “The pure artist”: Ibid., 13.
162 “you don’t have to be good”: FOC to Betty Hester, September 15, 1955, CW, 955.
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