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[tree_and_leaf]

I rather like this quote I've just found.

Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see, and they will not be a substitute for seeing.
- Flannery O'Connor

Comments

[kalquessa.livejournal.com]

I just started a book of her essays this weekend, and so far I'm really impressed. She has a Chestertonian knack for saying things that I want said, only saying them better than I ever could.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

I have never read any O'Connor. I keep meaning to remedy that.

[intertext.livejournal.com]

That's great. I love Flannery O'Connor.

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

There are a lot of potential questions there regarding the analogy, but I still like it.

(And thinking about it, the potential questions are specious ones based on phrases like 'tricks of the light', which could bear out O'Connor, on reflection.)

[telperion1.livejournal.com]

*claps* That's very true. :-)

[tree_and_leaf]

I don't know her work at all - though I think I read a short story once a long time ago - but I think I will have to read some of her essays.