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249 “A Temple of the Holy Ghost” was published in Harper’s Bazaar 88, May 1954; and was the fifth story in A Good Man Is Hard to Find.
249 “dislike intensely”: FOC to Janet McKane, November 28, 1963, CW, 1195.
250 “I did read enough”: Virginia Spencer Carr, The Lonely Hunter (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 2003): 433.
250 “a memorable addition”: Carmel Snow, “The Editor’s Guest Book,” Harper’s Bazaar 88 (May 1954): 54.
250 “The weekend I planned”: FOC to Brainard and Frances Neel Cheney, June 8, 1954, CC, 16.
250 “certainly distressed”: Ibid., May 20, 1954.
251 “barring mortal”: FOC to Frances Neel Cheney, [n.d.] “1945, Sunday,” CC, 17.
251 “We drove through the countryside”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Erik Langkjaer.
252 “I haven’t seen any dirt roads”: FOC to Erik Langkjaer, June 13, 1954, private collection.
252 “Thank you”: Ibid., July 18, 1954.
253 “researches into the ways”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, December 20, 1952, CW, 905.
253 “Well you go”: “An Interview with Flannery O’Connor and Robert Penn Warren: Vagabond / 23 April 1959,” Con, 20–21.
253 “nigger statuary”: FOC to Betty Hester, September 6, 1955, CW, 954.
253 “I hate to insult”: Sally Fitzgerald, “Letters to the Editor,” Flannery O’Connor Bulletin 23 (1994–95): 180.
253 “the redemptive quality”: FOC to Ben Griffith, May 4, 1955, CW, 931.
253 “the story as a whole”: Sally Fitzgerald, “Letters to the Editor,” 181.
254 “Mr. Ransom took”: FOC to Caroline Gordon, November 14, 1954, CW, 926.
254 “to gain some altitude”: FOC to Ben Griffith, May 4, 1955, CW, 931.
254 “In those last two paragraphs”: Ibid.
254 “my favorite and probably the best”: FOC to Maryat Lee, March 10, 1957, CW, 1027.
254 “Without yr kind permission”: FOC to Sally Fitzgerald, December 26, 1954, CW, 927.
254 “in about four days”: FOC to Betty Hester, June 1, 1956, HB, 160.
254 “less conscious technical”: FOC to Betty Hester, August 24, 1956, CW, 1000.
255 “Before I realized it”: FOC, “Writing Short Stories,” MM, 100.
255 “the Om. Nar.”: Caroline Gordon to FOC, February 19, 1955, GCSU.
255 “It is without exception”: Allen Tate to FOC, February 22, 1955, GCSU.
256 “lady Ph.D.”: FOC, “Writing Short Stories,” MM, 98.
256 “Write me an unintelligible”: FOC to Erik Langkjaer, January 9, 1955, private collection.
256 “Do you think Erik”: FOC to Erik Langkjaer, April 1, 1955, private collection.
257 “Yes, she did”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Sally Fitzgerald.
257 “We are glad that you plan”: FOC to Erik Langkjaer, May 3, 1955, CW, 936.
257 “Good Country People”: The story was published in Harper’s Bazaar in June 1955, and was included as the ninth story in A Good Man Is Hard to Find. The editor Robert Henderson at The New Yorker rejected “Good Country People” on April 6, 1955, claiming in a letter to Elizabeth McKee, “It’s an interesting story with a great many good things in it, but I’m afraid we’re not quite persuaded by the tour-de-force ending.” The New Yorker (editor C. M Newman) had previously rejected an O’Connor story titled “Running,” on February 28, 1952; “A Late Encounter with the Enemy” (editor Henderson) on April 30, 1952; and “The River” (editor Newman) on Decem-ber 22, 1952.
257 “very hot story”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, April 1, 1955, HB, 76.
257 “in some sort of disguise”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Erik Langkjaer.
257 “Dear boy”: FOC to Erik Langkjaer, April 29, 1956, private collection.
258 “bezerk”: FOC to Erik Langkjaer, February 26, 1958, private collection.
258 “Eric”: FOC to Roslyn Barnes, June 29, 1962, HB, 482.
258 “I just by the grace”: FOC to Caroline Gordon and Allen Tate, March 1, 1955, GCSU.
258 “a wooden part”: FOC, “Writing Short Stories,” MM, 99; Sally Fitzgerald in an interview with Christopher O’Hare remarked that “I feel that it was a story about losing a kind of emotional woodenness that Flannery had developed, a protective woodenness.”
CHAPTER EIGHT: FREAKS AND FOLKS
259 “I will be real glad”: FOC to