![]() The words were as silent as seed opening one at a time in his blood. GO WARN THE CHILDREN OF GOD OF THE TERRIBLE SPEED OF MERCY. He threw himself to the ground and with his face against the dirt of the grave, he heard the command. He knew that this was the fire that had encircled Daniel, that had raised Elijah from the earth, that had spoken to Moses and would in the instant speak to him. THE VIOLENT BEAR IT AWAY (the kingdom of heaven, that is. ![]() He felt it building from the blood of Abel to his own, rising and spreading in the night, a red-gold tree of fire ascended as if it would consume the darkness in one tremendous burst of flame. The Violent Bear It Away (1960) Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964) The worst critics are discussed at the end of this document. He felt it rising in himself through time and darkness, rising through the centuries, and he knew that it rose in a line of men whose lives were chosen to sustain it, who would wander in the world, strangers from that violent country where the silence is never broken except to shout the truth. He said he had a book that he kept the names of his customers families and what was wrong with them. He said when he went to sell a man a flue, he asked first about that mans wifes health and how his children were. When the novel opens, fourteen year-old Francis Marion Tarwater begins to bury his great-uncle, Marion, who has raised him in the backwoods. Flannery OConnor, quote from The Violent Bear It Away. ![]() “He felt his hunger no longer as a pain but as a tide. The Violent Bear It Away is a Southern Gothic novel by Flannery O’Connor, taking place in Tennessee in 1952. ![]()
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