#43: A View of the Woods
Close Reads Podcast
Goldberry Studios
4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2017
⏱️ 60 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 "A View of the Woods."
Topics include: Whether Mary actually exists, Mary as mirror of her grandfather, O'Connor's mysterious use of pronouns, the battle between Fortune and Pitts, the story's comments on modernism, and the damnation of Fortune.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Close Reads here on the Circe Institute Podcast Network. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm David Kern and as always on Close Reeds. |
| 0:16.4 | I am joined by Angelina Stanford and Tim McIntosh. |
| 0:19.5 | Angelina and Tim, how is it going? |
| 0:22.5 | David, it's going great. |
| 0:23.9 | Sounds like you have a cold. |
| 0:25.1 | Oh, yeah, I am stuffed up and sniffly, |
| 0:27.6 | and I apologize for any noises that come out of my, |
| 0:30.5 | come through the microphone during the recording of this episode. |
| 0:34.0 | Like this. |
| 0:36.9 | Sir C's Close Reeds is not responsible for any sniffling that comes through the microphone |
| 0:41.4 | it's brutal right now over here I'm just I'm just on the tail end of a coal yeah the |
| 0:48.2 | allergies turn into coal I've never before experienced pollen mixed with snow. |
| 0:54.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.1 | Do you guys get snow? |
| 0:57.1 | It snowed. |
| 0:59.6 | And I was like, okay, maybe that's going to calm down the pollen. |
| 1:03.7 | And so I went outside to enjoy the snow and immediately started sneezing and got a headache. |
| 1:05.0 | And I was like, well, this is weird. |
| 1:05.9 | Oh, dear. |
| 1:07.2 | Well, we got snow. |
| 1:10.2 | And then we woke up to snow in the morning. |
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