'What is your opinion of Singleton?' he asked abruptly. She raised her head and appeared to look through him. 'A Christ-figure,' she said. The boy was stunned. 'I mean as myth,' she said scowling. 'I’m not a Christian.' ... 'I’m here only because of my sympathy for Singleton. I’m going to write about him. Possibly a novel.' 'I intend to write a non-fiction study,' the girl said in a tone that made it evident fiction was beneath her.
Flannery O’Connor, “The Partridge Festival,” 1961