#42: Greenleaf
Close Reads Podcast
Goldberry Studios
4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2017
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Close Reads, Angelina, Tim, and David continue their conversation on Flannery O'Connor's collection of stories, Everything That Rises Must Converge, with "Greenleaf."
Topics include: The romance of the bull, the bull as Christ-figure, O'Connor's commentary on Southern Christianity, sympathy for the Greenleafs, class differences in the story, Mrs. May's irreligion, Mrs. May's disdain for the bull, and the medieval theme of ecstasy in the story's ending.
PLEASE NOTE: STARTING AT ABOUT 49 MINUTES SOME THEMES THAT MAY NOT BE APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN ARE DISCUSSED. PROCEED WITH CAUTION IF LISTENING WITH YOUR KIDS.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Close Reads here on the Circe Institute Podcast Network. |
| 0:12.8 | I am David Kern, and as always, on Close Reeds, I am joined by Angelina Stanford and Tim McIntosh. |
| 0:18.8 | How's it going, guys? |
| 0:21.0 | It's going to... |
| 0:21.6 | I just going to say, oh wait, we both just busted into that. |
| 0:26.4 | You go first. |
| 0:27.8 | You go first. |
| 0:28.7 | I was just going to say that, as usual, the pre-show conversation was like the best thing |
| 0:34.4 | in this whole thing. |
| 0:35.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:35.7 | The part that we cannot keep in, keep in the recording. |
| 0:39.6 | Angelina, I just love that I started that entire rant with. |
| 0:42.5 | I don't have a strong opinion, but. |
| 0:44.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:45.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:46.0 | And the next thing we know, you said a whole bunch of stuff that I can't, that I have to edit out. |
| 0:50.9 | I know exactly. |
| 0:52.6 | But none of that was a strong opinion. |
| 0:54.6 | Yeah, I don't really actually care about anything I just said. |
| 0:56.8 | Tim, what about you? |
| 0:58.0 | What were you going to say? |
| 0:58.9 | Well, I just wanted to tell everyone that this podcast was brought to you by my new |
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