Say it loud, say it proud
A friend was telling me about an experience she had had recently, not a good one, and I thought that maybe she had to have that experience to understand why she shouldn’t have that relationship. I quoted Flannery O’Connor to her, well last night I ended up quoting O’Connor again as I discussed with a guy how television is about to morph into being more blockbuster than subtle script stories. He loved the quote and here it is:
When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs as you do, you can relax a little and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock, to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind, you draw large and startling figures.