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  • There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his senses tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence.

    Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners. Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction. (via msodradek) (via enormousair) (via booklover) (via missworld) (via ipictureyouinthesun) (via kendalllouise) (via libraryland)

    Posted on January 23, 2010 via Ms. Odradek with 62 notes

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