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The Spur of Mortality: Robert Greene and Flannery O’Connor

March 22, 2019 David Hurley 0

Earlier this year I was listening to the Audible version of Robert Greene’s The Laws of Human Nature and was intrigued by his discussion of Flannery O’Connor. It occurs in the last chapter of the book where things take a deeply serious turn and Greene urges us to “Meditate on [Read more…]

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