A fugue state in which a person, insisting that Carson McCullers and Flannery O'Connor were really Eudora Welty, constantly repeats the phrase "But they were all southern and all women".
Yes, all those incarnations of Eud are "so hard to tell apart", as one of my former English instructors once said. "Some women have done fairly well as regional writers, but there is a certain sameness about them, reflecting their essential limitations."
Yes, all those incarnations of Eud are "so hard to tell apart", as one of my former English instructors once said. "Some women have done fairly well as regional writers, but there is a certain sameness about them, reflecting their essential limitations."
ReplyDeleteLeaving aside the horrible sexism, anyone who thinks Flannery O'Connor's work is just like Eudora Welty's has a severe reading impairment.
ReplyDeleteIsn't that the truth, Andi!
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