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read it in order to see its wholeness,
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see how it embodies a formal beauty, a formal order.
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This looks very much like the kind of metaphysical order that I was drawing out
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of the Catholic version of what O'Connor's doing in her novels,
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her version of what she's doing in the novels,
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where you have that transcendent sky, and there is
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this sense of an ordering that seeps down in to the material world,
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that moment when Hazel thinks that he's somehow seeing
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broken-off pieces of something that once happened to him.
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There is this latent order everywhere.
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And, for O'Connor, it's part of this moral religious
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order, this redemptive order, that Catholicism is for her.