#48: "Revelation"
Close Reads Podcast
Goldberry Studios
4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2017
⏱️ 80 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 "Revelation."
Topics include:
- Whether this is a good story to use to introduce stuents to O'Connor
- The racism of characters in the story
- Mrs. Turpin's gradual openness
- Mrs. Turpin's Christ-haunted-ness
- Seeing ourselves in Mrs. Turpin
- Judging Mrs. Turpin
- Mrs. Turpin's avenging angel of judgment
- Mrs. Turpin's mystical vision
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Close Reads on the Circe Institute Podcast Network. |
| 0:11.0 | I am David Kern and as always here on Close Reeds, I am joined by Angelina Stanford and Tim McIntosh. |
| 0:18.0 | I am joined. |
| 0:19.0 | I also am joined. |
| 0:21.4 | How's it going? |
| 0:26.7 | I held my breath a little bit when you went to introduce this since you've been doing these tie-ins with the stories each week. |
| 0:28.6 | And I was like, oh, man, what is you about to say? |
| 0:29.4 | I did think about. How am I about to be introduced? |
| 0:31.3 | Right. |
| 0:31.6 | I did think about it. |
| 0:32.5 | I was just glad you didn't go there. I got to say I went through a couple of options |
| 0:38.5 | and they all felt a little bit mean and probably like I shouldn't shouldn't go that direction. |
| 0:43.5 | So this week you're off the hook. Phew. Phew. Well, today is Friday, April 14th, 2017. It is a Good Friday. We are recording, as always on a Friday, |
| 0:58.2 | and this episode will be going up on Monday, the day after Easter. So this is an interesting story |
| 1:04.0 | to be talking about, dare I say, a good story to be talking about on Good Friday, an appropriate |
| 1:09.2 | story to be talking about on Good Friday, shall we story to be talking about on Good Friday, shall |
| 1:11.1 | we say, with listening the day after Easter. So I suspect that there will be plenty of tie-in |
| 1:16.0 | options for that as we discuss the story. Quickly, though, Tim, Angelina, what's new? In 30 seconds, |
| 1:24.1 | Angelina, what's new that you want to share with the podcast listeners out there? |
| 1:30.1 | I'm headed to Orlando next month, and I'm hoping to meet some more listeners there. |
| 1:35.9 | Yes, so she is going to be speaking at our regional conference in Orlando, and I'm glad you mentioned that, because we would love to have more people there. |
| 1:43.1 | There is space available. |
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