Friday, March 4, 2011

Lagniappe: The Lineman and the Peacock a la Flannery

From The Habit of Being, a collection of Flannery O'Connor's letters.
We just yesterday got our telephone out here. The lineman that put it in wanted to see the peacock so I took him out there and he looked for a while, not saying anything. Overcome, thinks I. Finally he turns away. "How do you like him?" I say. "Longlegged rascal, ain't he?" he says. "I bet he could outrun a Greyhound bus."

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