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" Science, on the other hand, has to assert its soberness and seriousness afresh and declare that it is concerned solely with what-is. Nothing — how can it be for science anything but a horror and a phantasm? If science is right, then one thing stands... "
Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South - Page 202
by Ralph C. Wood - 2005 - 272 pages
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American Fiction in the Cold War

Thomas H. Schaub - 1991 - 230 pages
...and seriousness afresh and declare that it is concerned solely with what-is. Nothing — how can that be for science anything but a horror and a phantasm?...We know it by wishing to know nothing of Nothing." When Hulga steps out with the Bible salesman, Manley Pointer, intending to seduce him, she tells him,...
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Flannery O'Connor's South

Robert Coles - 1993 - 204 pages
...to assert its soberness and seriousness afresh and declare that it is concerned solely with what is. Nothing — how can it be for science anything but...We know it by wishing to know nothing of Nothing." That was underlined, we are told — by an author pushing us hard to think of the dreary junk that...
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The Tyranny of the Normal: An Anthology

Carol C. Donley, Sheryl Buckley - 1996 - 412 pages
...other hand, has to assert its soberness and seriousness afresh and declare that it is concerned solely with what-is. Nothing — how can it be for science...quickly and went out of the room as if she were having a chill. This morning when the girl came in, Mrs. Freeman was on Carramae. "She thrown up four times...
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Paradox Lost and Paradox Regained: An Object Relations Analysis of Two ...

Sherry L. Lebeck - 2000 - 189 pages
...soberness and seriousness afresh and declare that it is concerned solely with what-is. Nothing—how can it be for science anything but a horror and a...We know it by wishing to know nothing of Nothing. (p. 277) These words read by Mrs. Hopewell from Joy/Hulga's philosophy book are analogous to her wishes...
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Paradox Lost and Paradox Regained: An Object Relations Analysis of Two ...

Sherry L. Lebeck - 2000 - 189 pages
...concerned solely with what-is. Nothing—how can it be for science anything but a horror and a phantasm? 1f science is right, then one thing stands firm: science...We know it by wishing to know nothing of Nothing, (p. 277) These words read by Mrs Hopewell from Joy/Hulga's philosophy book are analogous to her wishes...
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Narrating Knowledge in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction

Donald E. Hardy - 2003 - 224 pages
...right, then one thing stands firm: science wishes to know nothing of nothing. Such is after all the oo strictly scientific approach to Nothing. We know it...quickly and went out of the room as if she were having a chill" (GM, 176—77).The book that Hulga has been reading is Martin Heidegger's Existence and Being....
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Democracy's Literature: Politics and Fiction in America

Patrick J. Deneen, Joseph Romance - 2005 - 252 pages
...other hand, has to assert its soberness and seriousness afresh and declare that it is concerned solely with what-is. Nothing — how can it be for science...We know it by wishing to know nothing of Nothing" (268). Mrs. Hopewell reads these words after opening her daughter's book to a random page and finding...
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The Incarnational Art of Flannery O'Connor

Christina Bieber Lake - 2005 - 282 pages
...other hand, has to assert its soberness and seriousness afresh and declare that it is concerned solely with what-is. Nothing — how can it be for science...We know it by wishing to know nothing of Nothing" (CW, 268-69). O'Connor's humor works powerfully in this story, for here we laugh both at the seemingly...
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