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yendiIt's Flannery O'Connor's birthday (yes, famous people can be born on days when Google doesn't create a doodle, weird as that concept might be).
To celebrate, you should manipulate your loved ones on a road trip and detour them to Tennessee, where you can all get murdered. It's totally what she'd have wanted.
(Context here, although I'm pretty sure that's a copyright violation, even if it's the third item in my Google search. But really, why don't you already own the collection this story's in, anyway?)
To celebrate, you should manipulate your loved ones on a road trip and detour them to Tennessee, where you can all get murdered. It's totally what she'd have wanted.
(Context here, although I'm pretty sure that's a copyright violation, even if it's the third item in my Google search. But really, why don't you already own the collection this story's in, anyway?)
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Date: 2011-03-25 07:09 pm (UTC)We read that story back in high school. I thought it totally sucked. We had one really funny class discussion about it -- short version, once there was an English class who thought they understood the True Deep Meaning of the Story, and Long Story Short, finally got their letter laying out the True Deep Meaning and expressing that they truly Got It to Ms. O'Connor, who to their shock and horror and disbelief wrote back that they were all completely wrong -- it's really is just a story about a family who went on a road trip and got killed by someone named The Misfit, not some allegory for [huge pile of stuff].
I thought this was funny since it showed how completely full of crap so many English classes are. ^_^ Which often described my high school English classes well.
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