When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax a little and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock—to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large startling figures.
-Flannery O'Connor, "The Fiction Writer & His Country," Mystery and Manners, 33-34.
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I am SO glad that someone like Flannery O'Connor has existed AND that in God's providence the circumstances of her life and mine fell just so that I happened to know of her. Isn't that a wonderful blessing?
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