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and he was so absorbed in the question of whether a bastard could
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be in the Church without Christ that he doesn't follow her into
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the sin that would, in fact, be the catalyst for his redemption.
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And so, the cloud departs at the end.
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I have to say: this is incredibly heavy handed.
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If we think about the religious reading, and think about religious symbolism,
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this is hardly innovative.
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And I would suggest to you that O'Connor, well, I don't know.
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Did O'Connor know that it was heavy handed?
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I don't know.
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What is true about O'Connor is that she was trained to write stories like this.
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Flannery O'Connor-- and this is, again, that context coming in--