#41: Everything That Rises Must Converge
Close Reads Podcast
Goldberry Studios
4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2017
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Close Reads, Angelina, Tim, and David begin their conversation on Flannery O'Connor's collection of stories, Everything That Rises Must Converge, beginning with the titular story.
Topics include: The 2017 Close Reads literature bracket, first experiences with O'Connor (18:10), O'Connor's "metaphysical realism" (26:40), story summary (37:11), the real racist in the story (41:50), the effect of coming home in O'Connor's work (51:40), the coin (62:45), the ambiguity of the end (70:00).
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Close Reads here on the Sersie Institute Podcast Network. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm David Kern, and as always on Close Reads, I am joined by Tim McIntosh and Angelina Stanford. |
| 0:17.5 | Yeah, I just switched it up. |
| 0:19.0 | I know. |
| 0:19.7 | Why? |
| 0:20.2 | It's like a dagger to my heart when you do that. |
| 0:22.9 | I got to be... |
| 0:23.9 | My heart is warm and fluffy at that mention. |
| 0:27.5 | Okay, but we all know who the fragile one is here, Tim. Come on. I got to take what I can get. |
| 0:34.1 | Yeah, but if you like, if you're like admitting you're fragile to manipulate in someone into giving you things, it's like it's just kind of a, it's just kind of. |
| 0:43.8 | Wow, did you just accuse me? |
| 0:45.1 | I'm trying to, I don't manipulate. |
| 0:47.2 | It's not, I don't know, it's like a different sort of fragility. |
| 0:49.8 | She bullies. |
| 0:50.9 | She emotionally bullies. |
| 0:52.8 | I'm just straight up bully. |
| 0:58.0 | So like, I'm disconnecting this call because I was not said first. Boom, goodbye. |
| 0:59.0 | So then Tim and I, I'll just talk. |
| 1:01.0 | Like Julian, you're a bully like Julian. |
| 1:04.0 | Thanks. |
| 1:05.0 | And everything that rises is most converged. |
| 1:07.0 | Just because I texted you that I had a shiny new penny for you, isn't it? |
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