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| + | *pp. 4 -- "These men and women they passed on Sunday mornings had spent the night in bars, or in cat houses, or on the streets, or on rooftops, or under the stairs. They had gone from cursing to laughter, to anger, to lust. Once he and Roy had watched a man and woman in the basement of a condemned house. They did it standing up. The woman had wanted fifty cents, and the man had flashed a razor. John had never watched again; he had been afraid. But Roy had watched them many times, and he told John he had done it with some girls down the block. And his mother and father, who went to church on Sundays, they did it too, and sometimes John heard them in the bedroom behind him, over the sound of rats' feet, and rat screams, and the music and cursing from the harlot's house downstairs." | ||
| + | *pp. 33 -- (movie watched by John) "The woman was most evil . . . She had a great many boyfriends, and she smoked cigarettes and drank. When she met the young man . . . she took his money and she went out with other men." | ||
Revision as of 13:38, 9 October 2009
The Church and the Whorehouse: Prostitution and Redemption in O'Connor's Wise Blood and Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain
"The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing." --John Steinbeck, East of Eden, Chapter 19.
Wise Blood
Go Tell It on the Mountain
- pp. 4 -- "These men and women they passed on Sunday mornings had spent the night in bars, or in cat houses, or on the streets, or on rooftops, or under the stairs. They had gone from cursing to laughter, to anger, to lust. Once he and Roy had watched a man and woman in the basement of a condemned house. They did it standing up. The woman had wanted fifty cents, and the man had flashed a razor. John had never watched again; he had been afraid. But Roy had watched them many times, and he told John he had done it with some girls down the block. And his mother and father, who went to church on Sundays, they did it too, and sometimes John heard them in the bedroom behind him, over the sound of rats' feet, and rat screams, and the music and cursing from the harlot's house downstairs."
- pp. 33 -- (movie watched by John) "The woman was most evil . . . She had a great many boyfriends, and she smoked cigarettes and drank. When she met the young man . . . she took his money and she went out with other men."
