Top 10 Literary Parent-Child Relationships from Hell.
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Top 10 Hellish Child-Parent Relationships
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An Ideal Mother
When I think of a mother-son relationship that most matches my own, I think of Betsy Trotwood and David Copperfield.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Everything that Rises Must Converge, Flannery O'Connor, mothers and sons, Oedipus, Parenting, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint, Sophocles, To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf Comments closed
Belichick and Saban: Infernal Machines
Belichick and Saban resemble Jean Cocteau’s “Infernal Machine” and Flannery O’Connor’s Misfit.
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Let He Who Is without Sin Judge Others
Spiritual Sunday Jackie Paskow, a former colleague from the Foreign Language Department, recently mentioned to me a Flannery O’Connor story that had made an impact on her. We normally visit the Paskows on Sunday evenings—Alan is my friend who has cancer—but as we are out of town for the week, I thought I’d send her, […]
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Post Football Season Blues
Sports Saturday For American football fans, February is the cruelest month. Suddenly there are no Sundays to look forward to anymore. Suddenly there are no players or coaches or owners to excoriate. Suddenly there is, well, emptiness. It may be pushing it, but for me, the feeling is captured by a 1960’s Flannery O’Connor story. […]
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