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269 “a generation of wingless”: Ibid., July 20, 1955, CW, 942.
269 “disappointed look”: FOC to Fred Darsey, June 8, 1955, Emory.
270 “I have thought of Simone Weil”: FOC to Betty Hester, August 9, 1955, CW, 945.
270 “and what is more comic”: Ibid., September 24, 1955, CW, 957–58.
270 “I have read almost 200”: Ibid., August 21, 1955, CW, 947.
270 osteonecrosis: E-mail from Michael Lockshin, MD, to author, August 3, 2007.
270 “I am learning to walk”: FOC to Betty Hester, September 24, 1955, CW, 956.
271 “It occurs to me”: FOC to Betty Hester, October 12, 1955, HB, 109.
271 “Humpty Dumpty”: FOC to Betty Hester, October 20, 1955, CW, 962.
272 “She was no beaut”: Victor Judge, Vanderbilt Divinity School, e-mail message to the author, April 25, 2007.
272 “Cheap and nasty”: Russell Kirk, “Memoir by Humpty Dumpty,” Flannery O’Connor Bulletin 8 (1979): 14.
272 “quite horrified”: Ibid, 16.
272 “I hope you won’t let”: Caroline Gordon to FOC, February 19, 1955, GCSU.
272 “Which is the way I feel”: FOC to Robie Macauley, May 18, 1955, CW, 934.
272 “The Freak in Modern Fiction”: FOC to Betty Hester, August 9, 1955, CW, 946.
272 “I get so sick of my novel”: FOC to Brainard and Frances Neel Cheney, February 18, 1956, CC, 32.
273 “Miss Regina always”: Alfred Matysiak, in discussion with the author, July 27, 2004.
273 “Greenleaf”: The story was published in Kenyon Review 18 (Summer 1956); reprinted as the first-prize story in Prize Stories 1957: The O. Henry Awards, edited by Paul Engle and Constance Urdang; in First-Prize Stories, 1919–1957, edited by Harry Hansen; in The Best American Short Stories 1957, edited by Martha Foley; and in First-Prize Stories, 1919–1963, edited by Harry Hansen. It is the second story in Everything That Rises Must Converge.
273 “Stories of Gifted Writer”: Ben Griffith, Jr., Savannah Morning News, June 5, 1955.
273 “brought out a lot of points”: FOC to Ben Griffith, June 8, 1955, CW, 937.
273 “that was always getting out”: FOC to Frances Neel Cheney, July 26, 1956, CC, 40.
273 “I’m never prepared”: FOC to Betty Hester, January 17, 1956, CW, 982.
274 “to stuff the Church”: FOC to Betty Hester, June 30, 1956, HB, 134.
274 “flying buttresses”: Ibid., March 24, 1956, HB, 151.
274 “intellectual vaudeville”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, May 8, 1955, CW, 933.
274 “There she was, so young”: Alta Lee Haynes, “Flannery O’Connor Remembered, March 4, 1966,” GCSU.
275 “perverse”: “Modern Fiction Aspects Told by Novelist Flannery O’Connor,” State Journal (Lansing, Mich.), April 25, 1956.
275 “I am highly pleased”: FOC to Betty Hester, May 5, 1956, CW, 994.
275 “mortification”: FOC to Betty Hester, February 25, 1956, HB, 140.
275 “I have just had the doubtful”: FOC to John Lynch, February 19, 1956, HB, 138.
276 “The competition is at least”: FOC to Betty Hester, May 19, 1956, Emory.
276 “When forced to a program”: Ibid., February 25, 1956.
276 “without pause, break, breath”: Ibid., May 19, 1956.
276 “I was basically treated as”: William Sessions, GCSU, March 30, 2006.
277 “conversation is limited”: FOC to Betty Hester, June 16, 1956, Emory.
277 “I always take people”: FOC to Betty Hester, June 28, 1956, CW, 997.
278 “I seem to attract”: FOC to Robie Macauley, May 18, 1955, CW, 935.
278 “Some Very Peculiar Types”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, May 8, 1955, CW, 933.
278 “Mary Flannery is a sweet”: James H. McCown, “Remembering Flannery O’Connor,” America (September 8, 1979): 86.
278 “a white Packard”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, January 22, 1956, HB, 133.
278 “Proud you did”: McCown, “Remembering Flannery O’Connor,” 86.
279 “turkey-dog”: FOC to Betty Hester, February 11, 1956, CW, 986.
279 “of the scope and seriousness”: McCown, “Remembering Flannery O’Connor,” 88.
279 “Never let it be said”: FOC to Erik Langkjaer, April 29, 1956, private collection.
279 “a great mother-saver”: FOC to Betty Hester, August 11, 1956, HB, 169.
279 “very oriented towards making”: Rosa Lee Walston, quoted in Jean Cash, Flannery O’Connor: A Life (Knoxville: University