A Good Grace is Hardly Found

[malignd at aol.com]

You can find on YouTube videos of Joni Mitchell performing on some sort of Canadian hootnanny with Oscar Brand.  There's some decent talent -- the Chapin bros. -- and it's about what you'd expect, a lot of strumming and hearty singing.  Then Joni comes on and she's eighteen or nineteen, I imagine, and sings Morning Morgantown or something equally good and everybody on the show, including Oscar -- it's like she's a martian. 



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From: Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: malignd <malignd at aol.com>; alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
Cc: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wed, Nov 28, 2012 8:50 pm
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I read a wonderful essay once about her reading a story IN her Iowa Writer 's school class by another attendee. While most struggled to learn, find a voice, they knew she was an original
Already. Held them like a quiet preacher the whole class. 

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On Nov 28, 2012, at 8:32 PM, malignd at aol.com wrote:



Flannery O'Connor is ... I wish I was around to have fallen in love with her.



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From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wed, Nov 28, 2012 6:07 pm
Subject: Re: A Good Grace is Hardly Found


No probs, bros, I don't spect nothin less round this here list of
late. But it was a great thing I wrote about grace; if you know what I
mean. See, grace and free will are tropes that P just be playin wit.

 Now that O'Connor is another thing all together. She ain't messing
round with it; she's dead in the eye serious. What a fine writer is
Flannery O'Connor; her shorts are tight, her legs, even when they be
stretched wooden ones, be  long.

http://www.csub.edu/english/engl375/o'connor.htmlx

 

 
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