In her essay "The Fiction Writer and His Country," Flannery O'Connor writes this:
The novelist with Christian concerns will find in modern life distortions which are repugnant to him, and his problem will be to make these appear as distortions to an audience which is used to seeing them as natural; and he may well be forced to take ever more violent means to get his vision across to this hostile audience. When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax a little and use more normal ways of talking to it; when you have to assume it does not, then you have to mke your vision apparent by shock--to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the blind you draw large and startling figures.
- Do you think O'Connor's is an effective means of communicating truth?
- Is there a chance for the Christian writer to become addicted to the "distortions" and no longer feel repulsed by them?
Just food for thought, folks!
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