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289 “unhappy combinations”: FOC, “The Fiction Writer and His Country,” CW, 802.
289 “To the hard of hearing”: Ibid., 806.
289 “score”: Robert Fitzgerald, “Introduction,” Everything That Rises, xxiii.
290 “Quite soon”: Elizabeth Bishop, “Flannery O’Connor, 1925–1964,” New York Review of Books 3, no. 4 (October 8, 1964): 21.
290 “I sat down with a six pack”: Cash, Flannery O’Connor, 240.
290 “I tried reading them aloud”: Louise H. Abbot, “Remembering Flannery,” Flannery O’Connor Bulletin 23 (1994–95): 61.
290 “I am very glad”: FOC to Louise Abbot, February 27, 1957, HB, 205.
291 “we would have a few beers”: Louise Abbot to Maryat Lee, January 19, 1977, private collection.
291 “very expressive”: Abbot, “Remembering Flannery,” 63.
291 “You stay here”: Ibid., 65.
291 “famous writer”: Ibid., 63.
292 “where your treasure”: Ibid., 65.
292 “What in the wurld-d”: Ibid., 66.
292 “The following is good”: FOC to Maryat Lee, March 10, 1957, CW, 1027.
293 “intense manner”: Donald Richie, letter to the author, October 15, 2007.
293 “bisexual”: Robert E. Lee, in discussion with the author, May 2, 2004; Fran Belin, in discussion with the author, November 12, 2004.
293 “Oh Flannery”: Maryat Lee to FOC [n.d., late May 1957], copies in FOC Collection, GCSU.
293 “Everything has to be diluted”: FOC to Maryat Lee, June 9, 1957, HB, 225.
293 “I am not to be got rid of”: FOC to Maryat Lee, October 8, 1957, CW, 1045.
293 “The Enduring Chill”: The story was published in Harper’s Bazaar 91, July 1958, and was the fourth story in Everything That Rises Must Converge.
294 “a closet with a toilet”: FOC, “The Enduring Chill,” CW, 552.
294 “a play about Negroes”: Ibid., 551.
294 “suffered my remarks”: Lee, “Flannery, 1957,” 43.
294 “the orthodoxy”: FOC to Maryat Lee, January 9, 1957, CW, 1020.
294 “But — the last paragraph”: Maryat Lee to FOC, July 9, 1958, GCSU.
294 “reminds me of my character”: FOC to Maryat Lee, May 6, 1959, HB, 331.
294 “Wishing for an icicle”: Maryat Lee to FOC, August 22, 1958, GCSU.
294 “the pseudo-literary&theological”: FOC to Betty Hester, March 7, 1958, HB, 271.
295 “theology in modern literature”: FOC to Father James H. McCown, Decem-ber 29, 1957, CW, 1057.
295 “She really bore down”: Jean Cash, “Milledgeville 1957–1960: O’Connor’s ‘Pseudo-Literary & Theological Gatherings,” Flannery O’Connor Bulletin 18 (1989): 25.
295 “not particularly scintillating”: Cash, “Milledgeville 1957–1960,” 20–21.
295 “Maryat read us a play”: Mary Barbara Tate, in discussion with the author, June 3, 2004.
295 “was doing anything”: Ted R. Spivey, Flannery O’Connor: The Woman, the Thinker, the Visionary (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1955), 84.
295 “to show his little boy”: FOC to John Hawkes, July 27, 1958, CW, 1075.
296 “My father tempted me”: Christopher Dickey, e-mail to the author, January 17, 2005.
296 “a black halter”: FOC to Cecil Dawkins, April 14, 1958, CW, 1069.
296 “plowed all over the yard”: Ibid., 1068.
296 “gracious”: Katherine Anne Porter, “Gracious Greatness,” Esprit: Journal of Thought and Opinion 8, no. 1 (University of Scranton, Scranton, Pa., Winter 1964): 50.
CHAPTER NINE: EVERYTHING THAT RISES
297 “holy exhaustion”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, November 4, 1957, CW, 1048.
297 “will of iron”: Ibid., February 26, 1958, CW, 1064.
298 “I bet that’ll be real”: Ibid., November 4, 1957, CW, 1048.
298 “7 into 17”: FOC to Betty Hester, December 14, 1957, CW, 1056.
298 “Baloney Castle”: FOC to Ashley Brown, April 14, 1958, HB, 277.
298 “Left for two minutes”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, February 26, 1958, CW, 1064.
298 “where we were going”: FOC to Betty Hester, April 4, 1958, CW, 1067.
298 “my cousin is certainly”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, November 4, 1957, CW, 1048.
299 “Last Will”: “Last Will and Testament of Mary Flannery O’Connor,” April 18, 1958, GCSU.
299 “She is reading the Lourds”: FOC to Betty Hester, November 16, 1957, CW, 1049–50.
299 “like Mr. Head and Nelson”: FOC to Maryat