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310 “stumbling block”: FOC to John Hawkes, October 6, 1959, CW, 1109.
310 “gotten right”: Richard Gilman, “On Flannery O’Connor,” New York Review of Books 13, no. 3 (August 21, 1969): 26.
310 “RUIN MY EYES”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, [n.d., “Saturday,” 1951], CW, 892.
310 “thousands of little kids”: J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (New York: Little, Brown, 1951), 173.
310 “can drive me nuts”: FOC to Betty Hester, April 4, 1958, CW, 1066.
311 “Younglady”: FOC to Rebekah Poller, June 27, 1958, Flannery O’Connor Bulletin 12 (1983): 70.
311 “swan of old cars”: Robert Lowell to FOC, [n.d., December 1953], The Letters of Robert Lowell, edited by Saskia Hamilton (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), 203.
311 “hearse-like”: FOC to Betty Hester, August 30, 1958, HB, 294.
311 “my Jung friend”: Ibid., April 30, 1960, HB, 394.
311 “She certainly found him”: Louise Abbot, in discussion with the author, June 2, 2004.
311 “When I knocked”: Ted R. Spivey, Flannery O’Connor: The Woman, the Thinker, the Visionary (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1955), 15.
312 “could sense certain deep”: Ibid., 16.
312 “I have just finished”: FOC to Dr. T. R. Spivey, September 9, 1958, HB, 294.
312 “Now on a first-name basis”: Spivey, Flannery O’Connor, 24.
312 “dialogic”: FOC to Dr. T. R. Spivey, November 16, 1958, CW, 1079.
313 “He has a very fine mind”: FOC to Betty Hester, November 8, 1958, CW, 1078.
313 “I only have to bear”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, January 1, 1959, HB, 315.
313 “I must say I attribute”: FOC to Betty Hester, January 3, 1959, CW, 1088.
313 “had her say”: FOC to Betty Hester, January 31, 1959, HB, 317.
313 “persuadeth me”: FOC to Brainard Cheney, [n.d., “Friday,” February 1959], CC, 82.
313 “Miss Mary”: FOC to Betty Hester, February 15, 1959, Emory.
313 “I met her at two a.m.”: Richard Stern, “Flannery O’Connor: A Remembrance and Some Letters,” Shenandoah 16, no. 2 (Winter 1965): 6.
314 “confer with the young ladies”: FOC to Cecil Dawkins, January 14, 1959, HB, 316.
314 “Miss O’Connor, what are”: FOC to Elizabeth Bishop, April 9, 1959, CW, 1093.
314 “Do they think”: Stern, “Flannery O’Connor,” 6.
314 “all bad but two”: FOC to Louise Abbot, March 30, 1959, CW, 1091.
314 “full of wry strength”: Stern, “Flannery O’Connor,” 6.
314 “I hope you are accustoming”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, March 24, 1959, CW, 1090.
314 “The house is subject to termite”: FOC to Thomas Stritch, March 28, 1959, CW, 1091.
314 “doodles, exclamation points”: FOC to Betty Hester, February 28, 1959, CW, 1088.
315 “enthusiastic”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, February 15, 1959, HB, 318.
315 “obscure”: Brainard Cheney to FOC, [n.d., late July? 1959], CC, 91.
315 “too much a parody”: FOC to Catharine Carver, April 18, 1959, CW, 1094.
315 “When the grim reaper”: Ibid., March 27, 1959, CW, 1090.
315 “work on Tarwater”: FOC to Betty Hester, May 16, 1959, CW, 1096.
315 “an elderly French gentleman”: FOC to Maryat Lee, March 29, 1959, HB, 325.
315 “monde tragicomique”: Melvin J. Friedman, “Flannery O’Connor in France: An Interim Report,” Critical Essays on Flannery O’Connor, edited by Melvin J. Friedman and Beverly Lyon Clark (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1985), 132.
315 “sort of uptight”: Jean Cash, Flannery O’Connor: A Life (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002), 280.
316 “Whoever invented”: FOC to Maryat Lee, April 25, 1959, CW, 1095.
316 “I found her witty”: Robert Penn Warren, Esprit: Journal of Thought and Opinion 8, no. 1 (University of Scranton, Scranton, Pa., Winter 1964): 49.
316 “all my famous authors”: Robert Giroux, in discussion with the author, November 13, 2003.
316 “When I read Flannery”: Thomas Merton, “Flannery O’Connor,” Jubilee 12, no. 7 (November 1964): 52.
316 “The aura of aloneness”: Robert Giroux, “Introduction,” The Complete Stories (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971): xiii.
316 “The car was going”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Robert Giroux.
317 “Her life is what you”: Robert Lowell to Elizabeth Bishop, February 24, 1960, Words in