On the Catholic Propensity, in Literature, to Glorify Pain
But if we Catholics are obsessed with suffering, it is no more than society at large… only our suffering looks a little different.
How O’Connor’s characters seem to suffer needlessly, and when they oughtn’t to! And all of it, like my dressing in the morning, appears self-inflicted.
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