Basketball and Literature
I must admit to rooting for all the New England colleges in this week's March Madness. Why not show regional enthusiasm?
Did I root for southern colleges when I lived south of the Mason Dixon line?
At that time I discovered southern writers--the rhythm of their words, the way the grotesque in Flannery O'Connor's short stories burned into my consciousness, the pace that allowed me to wander.
I may no longer root for southern teams, but I continue to read and reread Flannery O'Connor's short stories.
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
-- Flannery O'Connor
Did I root for southern colleges when I lived south of the Mason Dixon line?
At that time I discovered southern writers--the rhythm of their words, the way the grotesque in Flannery O'Connor's short stories burned into my consciousness, the pace that allowed me to wander.
I may no longer root for southern teams, but I continue to read and reread Flannery O'Connor's short stories.
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
-- Flannery O'Connor
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