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170 “very good co-op cafeteria”: FOC to Betty Hester, September 8, 1962, HB, 491.
171 “to become an intellectual”: Ibid., June 1, 1956, 161.
171 “shooting sparks”: Ian Hamilton, Robert Lowell (New York: Random House, 1982), 149.
171 “She did this with some difficulty”: Robert Fitzgerald, “Introduction,” Everything That Rises Must Converge (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965), xii.
172 “how this affable”: Beth Dawkins Bassett, “Converging Lives,” Emory Magazine 50, no. 4 (April 1982): 18.
172 “shapes black-spinning”: FOC, “The Train,” Complete Stories, 56.
172 “Mrs. Fitzgerald is 5 feet 2”: FOC to Betty Hester, June 1, 1956, HB, 161.
172 “unusual”: Robert Giroux, in discussion with the author, November 13, 2003.
173 “my good editor”: FOC to Betty Hester, May 16, 1959, CW, 1096.
173 “received the shock”: Ian Hamilton, Lowell, 149–50.
174 “Let me right now correct”: FOC to Betty Hester, May 14, 1960, HB, 395.
174 “a Big Intellectual”: FOC to Betty Hester, December 16, 1955, CW, 976.
174 “It did become famous”: Elizabeth Hardwick, in discussion with the author, October 31, 2003.
175 “a frame of mind”: “Petition in support of Elizabeth Ames,” March 21, 1949, Newberry Library, Chicago. Quoted in Ian Hamilton, Lowell, 151.
175 “a poet and a Roman Catholic”: “Panel Discussions of the Cultural Conference Delegates Cover a Wide Range of Subjects,” New York Times, March 27, 1949.
175 “But you are a woman”: Ian Hamilton, Lowell, 156.
175 “to take with her”: Giroux, “Introduction,” Complete Stories, ix.
175 “I didn’t get any”: FOC to Paul Engle, April 7, 1949, CW, 883.
176 “blew our lids”: Robert Lowell to Anthony Ostroff, August 23, 1957, Letters, 291.
176 “Why didn’t you teach”: Helen Greene, “Mary Flannery O’Connor: One Teacher’s Happy Memory,” Flannery O’Connor Bulletin 19 (1990): 46.
176 “On one side we see communism”: James Carroll, “What We Can Learn from Our Reaction to Billy Graham’s Crusades,” Boston Globe, June 28, 2005.
176 “Our action”: FOC to Betty Boyd, June 8, 1949, GCSU.
176 “much worse than Georgia”: FOC to Janet McKane, July 7, 1963, HB, 530.
177 “I liked riding”: Ibid., June 5, 1963, HB, 522.
177 “All the women”: FOC to Betty Boyd, June 22, 1949, GCSU.
177 “uptown”: FOC to Janet McKane, July 20, 1963, HB, 530.
177 “I didn’t see much”: FOC to Janet McKane, June 19, 1963, CW, 1188.
177 “not overly talkative”: Virginia Wray, “Flannery O’Connor on the West Side: Dr. Lyman Fulton’s Recollections of a Short Acquaintance,” English Language Notes 39, no. 1 (September 2001): 73.
177 “goat’s milk cheese”: FOC to Mary Virginia Harrison [Mrs. John A. Mills], March 12, 1950, GCSU.
178 “I do remember”: Wray, “Flannery O’Conor on the West Side,” 75.
178 “An Easter Attraction”: New York Times, April 17, 1949.
178 “a pipe smoker”: “Vows of the Peacock,” The New Yorker (July 16, 1949): 12.
178 “laughing”: FOC to Janet McKane, June 5, 1963, HB, 523; the most likely candidate for the statue is an early fourteenth-century, forty-eight-inch-high walnut Enthroned Virgin and Child, from the Île-de-France, painted in polychrome, gilded ocher, accession number 25.120.290. Although O’Connor claimed her statue “wasn’t colored,” Michael Carter, Cloisters librarian, says, “the color is often so faded on medieval statuary that someone might remember it as unpainted.” Michael Carter, in discussion with the author, February 9, 2006. McKane turned up a photo in a Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin that O’Connor agreed was the one; the June 1963 edition of the Bulletin includes a photo of the statue on page 331.
178 “the Child had a face”: Ibid., July 9, 1963, HB, 529.
179 “about a baboon”: Wise Blood, CW, 79. The scene was included in newspaper ad copy as a thrill: “Rescues children from the big blaze,” New York Times, August 21, 1949; Jon Lance Bacon noted the connection in Flannery O’Connor and Cold War Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 122.
179 “I don’t think New York City”: Wray, “Flannery O’Connor on the West Side,” 74.
179 “culture fog”: FOC to