October 21, 2010 Class Notes

• Flannery O'Connor
• Parker's Back
• every part of his body is tattooed except his back
• gets a tattoo on his back of Jesus to impress his wife
• O.E. Parker
• Has an Epiphany that leads him to get the tattoo of Jesus
• Like Moses
• loses his shoes
• burning tree
• "A good man is hard to find"
• Horror to some is beauty to others
• Exodus 24
• Picnic by the Mountain
• James' Blog on Susanna
• The Slave
• live according to the Bible
• everyone should be reading this by now
• Ruth
• Moabite
• characters:
• faithful but make their own faith
• appeals to agnostics
• not sure what to believe but do believe in some higher being
• marriage saying
• only said to mother-in-law not husband/wife
• Wisdom
• Job, Ecclesiastes, Proverbs
• Types of wisdom
• conventional
• parents
• Don't Question God
• He has mysterious ways
• Proverbs
• Based on Egyptian book of father giving advice to his son
• 3 Evils
• Wine
• Women
• Song
• Speculative
• Everything Sucks!
• Samuel Beckett
• Breathe (a play)
• Ecclesiastes
• Job
• 2nd best things is to die
• 1st best thing is to never have been born