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Parker had never before felt the least motion of wonder in himself. Until he saw the man at the fair, it did not enter his head that there was anything out of the ordinary about the fact that he existed. Even then it did not enter his head, but a peculiar unease settled in him. It was as if a blind boy had been turned so gently in a different direction that he did not know his destination had been changed.

Flannery O’Connor, “Parker’s Back,” 1965

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'You got a secret need,' the blind man said. 'Them that know Jesus once can't escape Him in the end.' 'I ain't never known Him,' Haze said. 'You got a least knowledge,' the blind man said. 'That's enough. You know His name and you're marked. If Jesus has marked you there ain't nothing you can do about it. Them that have knowledge can't swap it for ignorance.'

Flannery O’Connor, “The Peeler,” 1949

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Long ago, I was wounded. I learned to exist, in reaction, out of touch with the world: I'll tell you what I meant to be - a device that listened. Not inert: still. A piece of wood. A stone. Why should I tire myself, debating, arguing? Those people breathing in the other beds could hardly follow, being uncontrollable like any dream - Through the blinds, I watched the moon in the night sky, shrinking and swelling - I was born to a vocation: to bear witness to the great mysteries. Now that I've seen both birth and death, I know to the dark nature these are proofs, not mysteries -

Louise Glück, “Parados,” c. 1990 (via mythofblue)

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