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Re: Jack and Flannery
>From: "Pauli" <paul_fry at email_msn.com>
>To: "brian abbott" <barabas0 at hotmail_com>, <j_marie_hall at hotmail_com>
>CC: <over-the-rhine at actwin_com>
>Subject: Re: Jack and Flannery
>Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 22:16:40 -0500
>
> > "hmm. . . that crow seems to be calling my name," thought Caw.
> > -j.h.
> >
> > >who is j.h.? that could be me... hmmm. (i'm j.m.h though)
>
>JH = Jack Handy of Deep Thoughts / Fuzzy Memories fame. I've read those
>books hundreds of times and I still laugh at them. Call me simple. One of
>my
>favorites.
>
> > i've yet to read flannery. i want her book of short stories. can you
>tell
> > me the name of the book which contains her short stories?
> >
> > thanks,
> > b'
>
>Another one of my favorite authors: Mary Flannery O'Connor (1925-64). Get
>"Flannery O'Connor: The Complete Stories" - 550 pages of pure reading
>bliss,
>13th printing in 1978 - has a big peacock on the front. I got mine on eBay
>awhile back. Her novels "Wise Blood" and "The Violent Bear it Away" are
>great too, but warm up with the short stuff first. I wrote a paper about
>her
>a while back that might be interesting...
>http://www.geocities.com/pauli_67/paper-1.htm If it's boring, just skip to
>the bottom and check out the bibliography - there's some more books about
>here down there.
>
>There's a great scene in "Slingblade" that's an obvious Flannery O'Connor
>reference - but I'll let you figure it out.
>
>Stay cool.
>
>Pauli
>
>
thank-you mr. paul fry. I LOVED SLINGBLADE! since i'm ignorant about
flannery i won't figure it out that allusion any time soon. thanks for the
paper too. i'll check it out.
5000-g,
brian
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