source query

[dhunt]

Does anyone recognize this? It's obviously from a journal, but which one? The quotation is O'Conner's but does anyone recognize the source?
Dena


November 21, 2008 / Volume CXXXV, Number 20
ARTICLE
What Flannery Knew
Catholic Writing for a Critical Age
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“The poet is traditionally a blind man. But the Christian poet, and the storyteller as well, is like the blind man Christ touched, who looked then and saw men as if they were trees-but walking. Christ touched him again, and he saw clearly. We will not see clearly until Christ touches us in death, but this first touch is the beginning of vision, and it is an invitation to deeper and stranger visions that we shall have to accept if we want to realize a Catholic literature.”

[job]

Dena,

The article is an essay by Paul Elie in Commonweal.

I couldn't give you the reference - but I'm sure that if you access that essay, Elie will no doubt mention at least ballparkwise when she wrote it and where.

JOB

[dhunt]

Thanks very much. I am a Catholic and a Georgian, and it's probably blasphemy to say that I do not like Flannery O'Conner, but despite being southern to the bone, I don't like any of the "southern writers." But that Scripture has always fascinated/mystified me and I've noticed that trees figure very prominently in everything I write. It was interesting to me to see that she associated that Scripture with writing.

[dhunt]

Apparently, the weal is less than common; one cannot even access the website without a subscription. Oh, well.