Southern Gothic?

[siberiannight]

Everyone, particularly folks from south of the Mason-Dixon line, should read Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. We've been reading the two of them for the past two weeks in language class and now in seminary and all I can say is 'Holy Goddamn' or something similar. Reading both of them makes me want to go on a road trip through Virginia and the

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[catchnoplagues]

I have made that trip and I'm doing it again in a month, because it gives me a glimpse of a more human life than anything new england has to offer.

maybe I'm just too macrocosmic for my own good, though.

[siberiannight]

To be fair to new england, the golden era of township governance is gone. Of course, that still doesn't make up for the individualism.
By the way,
You must come to Reality Weekend, first weekend in May.

[catchnoplagues]

the scale at which new england democracy takes place makes perfect sense under the assumption that a disdain for mass experience is the central character trait of northern societies and people.

the macrocosm is a total paradigm.

[bettertolive]

Seminary?

[siberiannight]

Perhaps a suppressed wish-fulfilment of that part of me that still wants to be a priest?

[catchnoplagues]

wait are you actually going?

[siberiannight]

Probably not at this point. I have faith, but I'm not sure it's enough to fill a mustard seed, and I'd need at least that.