delayed reactions
Mar 19, 2009
“The thing to do is write something with a delayed reaction like those capsules that take an hour to melt in the stomach. In this way, it could be performed on Monday and not make them vomit until Wednesday, by which time they would not be sure who was to blame. This is the principle I operate under and I find it works very well.”
-Flannery O’Connor in a letter to friend and playwright Maryat Lee in 1959.