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" and He shouldn't have done it. He thrown everything off balance. If He did what He said, then it's nothing for you to do but throw away everything and follow Him, and if He didn't, then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left... "
Before God - Page 123
by George W. Stroup - 2004 - 210 pages
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Flannery Oconnor-Aw

Stanley Edgar Hyman - 50 pages
...then it's nothing for you to do but thow away everything and follow Him, and if He didn't, then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you...other meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness." The Misfit has chosen the second alternative, but he admits at the end of the story, after wiping out...
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Seven American Women Writers of the Twentieth Century: An Introduction

Maureen Howard - 1977 - 390 pages
...then it's nothing for you to do but thow away everything and follow Him, and if He didn't, then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you...other meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness." The Misfit has chosen the second alternative, but he admits at the end of the story, after wiping out...
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Fifty Great Short Stories

Milton Crane - 1983 - 594 pages
...then it's nothing for you to do but thow away everything and follow Him, and if He didn't, then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you...meanness," he said and his voice had become almost a snarl. "Maybe He didn't raise the dead," the old lady mumbled, not knowing what she was saying and...
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The Senses of Preaching

1988 - 112 pages
...then it's nothing for you to do but throw away everything and follow Him, and if He didn't, then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you...other meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness." (From A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND AND OTHER STORIES, copyright 1953 by Flannery O'Connor; renewed 1981...
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American Fiction in the Cold War

Thomas H. Schaub - 1991 - 230 pages
...was a logic that required disbelief: if Jesus didn't raise the dead, he explains to her, "then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you...down his house or doing some other meanness to him" (28). The possibility that Jesus might have raised the dead throws "everything off balance" (27) and...
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The Art and Vision of Flannery O'Connor

Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr. - 1993 - 224 pages
...then it's nothing for you to do but throw away everything and follow Him, and if He didn't, then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you...some other meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness. " As strong as his awareness of Christ is (note the capitalized pronouns referring to Christ), The...
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God with a Human Face

John C. Purdy - 1993 - 132 pages
...then it's nothing for you to do but thow away everything and follow Him, and if He didn't, then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you...other meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness." From such cruelty, infantile behavior, fecklessness, and downright stupidity surely God is tempted...
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Eucharist as Sacrament of Initiation

Nathan Mitchell - 1994 - 162 pages
...then it's nothing for you to do but throw away everything and follow Him, and if He didn't, then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you...meanness," he said and his voice had become almost a snarl.12 At that moment Grandmother hits absolute bottom. She has no alternative but to reach out to...
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The Nature of Confession: Evangelicals & Postliberals in Conversation

George A. Lindbeck - 1996 - 304 pages
...then it's nothing for you to do but throw away everything and follow Him, and if He didn't, then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you...down his house or doing some other meanness to him. The grandmother he is about to kill says, "Maybe He didn't raise the dead," and the Misfit answers,...
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Writing Against God: Language as Message in the Literature of Flannery O'Connor

Joanne Halleran McMullen - 1996 - 172 pages
...1 . the grandmother raised her head . . . 2. "Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead." 3. "enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you...— by killing somebody or burning down his house . . ." 4. "Maybe He didn't raise the dead," the old lady mumbled . . . feeling so dizzy that she sank...
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