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345 “But pray that the Lord”: FOC to Father James H. McCown, March 24, 1962, HB, 468.
345 “When I was a child”: FOC to Betty Hester, March 24, 1962, Emory.
346 “powerful social”: FOC to Cecil Dawkins, April 25, 1962, CW, 1161.
346 “the worst book”: FOC to Betty Hester, July 22, 1961, HB, 446.
346 “I really liked Eudora”: FOC to Cecil Dawkins, April 25, 1962, CW, 1161.
346 “‘Explanations’ are repugnant”: FOC to Betty Hester, June 10, 1961, HB, 442.
347 “a comic novel”: FOC, Wise Blood, “Author’s Note to the Second Edition” (New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962), 5.
347 “Now what did you go”: Maryat Lee to FOC, August 15, 1962, GCSU.
347 “Flannery was a paradoxical”: Robert Giroux, in discussion with the author, November 13, 2003.
347 “the writing is one thing”: Maryat Lee, draft of a letter to Rosa Lee Walston, private collection.
347 “much liquor”: FOC to Betty Hester, May 5, 1962, CW, 1162.
347 “odiferous diesel”: Joel Wells, “Off the Cuff,” Critic 21 (August/September 1962): 4.
347 “wrapped up in newspaper”: FOC to Betty Hester, June 9, 1962, HB, 478.
348 “They don’t interfere”: Granville Hicks, “A Writer at Home with Her Heritage,” Saturday Review 45 (May 12, 1962): 22.
348 “wearing a blue plaid”: Alfred Corn, in discussion with the author, March 10, 2005; in an e-mail of the same day, Corn wrote, “The more I think about it the more it seems that the unspoken undercurrent of my exchange with FO’C had to do with my being gay: ‘How can I believe in a religion that says God will punish me for being who I am, even though I didn’t choose my sexuality?”
348 “she was that awesome”: Alfred Corn, “An Encounter with O’Connor and ‘Parker’s Back,’” Flannery O’Connor Bulletin 24 (1995–96): 106.
348 “At one time”: FOC to Alfred Corn, May 30, 1962, CW, 1164.
348 “Even if there were no Church”: Ibid., August 12, 1962, CW, 1173–74.
349 “There is a lot of ill-directed”: FOC to Dr. T. R. Spivey, June 21, 1959, CW, 1098.
349 “knew I was going to get married”: Ted R. Spivey, in discussion with the author, June 23, 2005.
349 “My Jung friend”: FOC to Betty Hester, April 30, 1960, HB, 394.
349 “an awful lot of porch-settin’”: Wells, “Off the Cuff,” Critic, 72.
349 “Flannery O’Connor’s novel”: FOC, The Complete Stories (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971): 554–55.
350 “secular contemplative”: FOC, manuscript of “Why Do the Heathen Rage?” File 226b, GCSU.
350 “hermit novelist”: FOC to Maryat Lee, June 28, 1957, CW, 1036.
350 “I have broken through the ceiling”: FOC, manuscript of “Why Do the Heathen Rage?” File 218a, GCSU.
350 “The depth of respect”: Virginia Wray, “Flannery O’Connor’s Why Do the Heathen Rage? And the Quotidian ‘Larger Things,’” Flannery O’Connor Bulletin 23 (1994–95): 25.
350 “plaid shirt”: FOC, manuscript of “Why Do the Heathen Rage?” File 216, GCSU.
350 “But it’s so obviously”: Louise H. Abbot, “Remembering Flannery,” Flannery O’Connor Bulletin 23 (1994–95): 75.
350 “reflect the Teilhardian”: John Kobler, “The Priest Who Haunts the Catholic World,” Saturday Evening Post 236 (October 12, 1963): 42.
351 Thomas Merton: Thomas Merton, The Wisdom of the Desert (New York: New Directions, 1960).
351 “Nobody can get me out”: FOC to Ashley Brown, October 28, 1962, Princeton.
351 “a Negro nightclub”: FOC to John Hawkes, November 24, 1962, HB, 500.
351 “because we lost the War”: FOC, “The Regional Writer,” MM, 59.
352 “thrown at first by her deep”: Jay Tolson, Pilgrim in the Ruins (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992): 307; Tolson is quoting from a letter by Walter Percy to Phinizy Spalding, March 1, 1963.
352 “oppressive”: FOC to Betty Hester, May 11, 1963, HB, 518.
352 “something (fishy)”: FOC to Thomas Stritch, June 14, 1963, CW, 1185.
352 “I appreciate and need”: FOC to Sister Mariella Gable, May 4, 1963, 1184.
352–353 “I have been working all summer”: FOC to John Hawkes, September 10, 1963, HB, 537.
353 “country women”: FOC to Cecil Dawkins, November 5, 1963, HB, 546.
353 “reward for setting”: Ibid., May 19, 1964, HB, 579.
354 “how in the 6th grade”: Maryat Lee,