Finding Flannery is an experiment in what Padgett Powell calls drafting in the mind of a genius. Let me be clear - I am no genius. Flannery O’Connor most certainly was. Nonetheless, I am compelled to answer the question Powell posits thus in his brilliant essay Breathing the Same Air as Genius in the May 2003 issue of The Oxford American. He asks:
If you could breath the same air over the same ground, could you draft in the mind of a genius?
Folly perhaps, but in the words of Savannah’s great songwriter, Johnny Mercer, Fools Rush In Where Angels Fear to Thread.
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