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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I would never compare myself with Ty. I'm like flannery o'connor. and Ty's my faulkner. In an interview after completing Wise Blood she was asked if she thought she was becoming an important southern voice:
Well you know, a few of us are trying to haul people around on our little train engines, but we still all have to get off the tracks when the big steam engine comes barreling through.
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I'm not sure how well this analogy holds. O'Connor created the concept of the Church without Christ, where the blind don't see, the lame don't walk, and what's dead stays that way, where Faulkner just drank and wrote overlong, rambling, nonsensical . . . wait, I see your point.
