Wednesday, June 29, 2005

From "The Habit of Being"

...I am a Catholic peculiarly possessed of the modern consciousness, that thing Jung describes as unhistorical, solitary, and guilty. To possess this within the Church is to bear a burden, the necessary burden for the conscious Catholic. It's to feel the contemporary situation at the ultimate level.

3 comments:

Buster Stronghart said...

Why O Why did you stop your blogging. Come back, come back...Buster

TS said...

niall - Thanks for the encouragment. The daybook/calendar format is an excellent idea and I'm surprised it hasn't been done before. I wonder if her literary executors have resisted it. Interesting suggestion though.

buster - mea culpa!

Anonymous said...

Flannery o'connor once lamented that she didn't want to see her work dissected in print like one of those frogs in a Biology book with acetate pages to peel back. It seems to some extent that we who love her work are compelled to ignore her wishes. DS