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Weekend link: pilgrimage to Andalusia.

Katy Carl

This beauty deserves a wider audience: a view of Flannery O’Connor’s Georgia homestead through contemporary eyes. The essayist notes some hilarious details along his road that O’Connor herself would have made a field day with, yet the central note of the piece is hushed, even holy:

I drove up the humble lane to the farm and caught sight of the house. “There it is!” I said aloud to no one. I parked in the grass behind the place and wandered around. I had my phone out like an idiot, taking pictures right and left as if amnesia was imminent. I didn’t want to risk it. A woman emerged from the porch and greeted me. “You must be a pilgrim,” she said. I am, how can you tell? “Pilgrims always approach the house differently, with reverence. Take your time. Stay as long as you want. The peafowl are over there.”

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Katy Carl is Editor in Chief of Dappled Things.

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  1. AvatarMike says

    September 1, 2014 at 12:34 pm

    Thanks for the good link. I hope to visit Andalusia someday as well. I have a recent post on O’Connor and teaching high school that might be of interest to those who read this.
    http://thecatholiclitclassroom.blogspot.com/

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