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Before we get into specifics drawn from the interests of Flannier-Connor,

I'm going to go touch on some principles in tonight's talk about the philosophy of art.

And I've given these in more detail in other Timistic Institute lectures. Not to plug myself here,

but you can find those lectures, ones on the beautiful and the sublime, the role of poetry and the

Christian life, and other talks on Dante Chaucer and other authors on the Timistic Institute podcast.

And while I'm plugging the Timistic Institute podcast, check it out in addition to my own feeble

attempts.

There are some first-rate Dominicans and Catholic faculty giving free lectures out there.

This talk is my first attempt at a closing chapter to a book that I've been working on

on domestic approaches to literature and their place in Christian anthropology.

I'm going to do my best here to stop

myself and explain what I've assumed in this talk from chapters that are in the previous part of

the book, but there's going to be time after this in the Q&A if there's anything that's unclear.

Well, I have some showment hell over here. I'm going to bring these out at various points.

Other books work by Flanner O'Connor and her letters.

For those who didn't get too much into the biography and didn't know much more about Flaner O'Connor, she was born and raised in Savannah, Georgia in 1925.

In her early teens, her father passed away from complications from lupus, and the family moved to her mother's

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