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start to think about what it means to read this novel,
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and what it means to read it in the light of the religious context that
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O'Connor herself, critics, marketers, have built
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up around her work.
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The first quotation from Sabbath Lily of course focuses on the eyes,
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and it is not hard to read into Haze Motes's name that the trope of sight
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is going to be important. "Haze Motes."
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There is that famous passage in the New Testament (or is it--
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oh, gosh--now I'm going to forget if it's New or Old Testament;
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someone will correct me): "Do not try to remove the mote from your
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neighbor's eye before you have removed it from your own,"
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or "lest you fail to remove the mote from your own eye."