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Everything Off Balance

Jesus (as Flannery O’Connor’s Misfit tells us) shown everything off balance. In “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” the Misfit expands on that hypothesis in his own personal testimony. I’ve found myself running that sentence, along with a close counterpart from just later in the story – “Does it seem right to you, lady,… Read More Everything Off Balance

June 13, 2016 TimLeave a comment

Brief Thoughts on Firearms in America

When I used to teach The Crucible, I would inevitably have at least one student who was aghast that John Proctor let himself be taken into custody at the end of Act 3 when he knew that he would be executed. “I’d never let that happen to me,” the kid, who is almost always a… Read More Brief Thoughts on Firearms in America

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