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Close Reads Podcast

#47: The Lame Shall Enter First

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2017

⏱️ 84 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 "The Lame Shall Enter First."

Topics include: whether this story is less grotesque, the clinical-ness of the prose, psychology vs spiritual in the story, whether Shepherd repents, O'Connor vs the enlightenment, Norton as Shepherd's mirror, Norton's loneliness, faith like a child, and O'Connor the smuggler

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Close Reads on the Circe Institute Podcast Network.

0:11.3

I'm David Kern, and as always, I am joined by two people who are impressed by both the immensity and the infantestimal, Tim McIntosh and Angelina Stanford.

0:21.5

How's it going?

0:23.4

I was going so good.

0:25.9

David, that was remarkable.

0:28.2

That was a stunning beginning.

0:31.2

I figure we should just stop all we're ahead.

0:33.3

Let's just end it right now.

0:34.3

I need to start coming up with something from every story to introduce you guys.

0:38.3

A couple weeks ago, I did the, what was the one that I introduced you guys as?

0:44.9

Oh, yeah.

0:46.0

I don't remember.

0:46.8

Now that I've brought it up, I can't remember.

0:48.6

But that's one of my favorite lines from this story, where he says if he couldn't impress the boy with amenity, he would try the

0:56.3

infantestimal.

0:58.4

So.

0:59.0

I'm not going to sit here and obsess about which one of us is which.

1:02.4

No, I said you're both, you're impressed by both the immense and the infantissimo.

1:07.9

Okay.

1:10.1

So how's it going?

1:12.4

Okay, so I'm just going to say, I had a fabulous week.

1:16.6

Let me tell you about my week.

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