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1. Angelico Nguyen, Esq., OP says

   July 7, 2014 at 9:52 pm

   

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   • Matthew Lickona says

     July 7, 2014 at 11:57 pm

     I was going to say that you misspelled “Oreo,” but then I realized that you were referencing The Thin Man. I, of course, am The Fat Man.

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     • Angelico Nguyen, Esq., OP says

       July 8, 2014 at 12:05 am

       Putting the ‘ham’ in ‘Hammett’.

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2. JOB says

   July 9, 2014 at 11:13 am

   

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   • Angelico Nguyen, Esq., OP says

     July 9, 2014 at 8:16 pm

     A Gutman is hard to find.

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     • lickona says

       July 11, 2014 at 3:52 pm

       Some of us just look good in hats.

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       • Flannery O'Connor's Cocktail Service says

         July 11, 2014 at 7:09 pm

         To Dr. T.R. Spivey

         25 May 59

         […]

         Week before last I went to Wesleyan and read “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” After it I went to one of the classes where I was asked questions. There were a couple of young teachers there and one of them, an earnest type, started asking the questions. “Miss O’Connor,” he said, “Why is the Misfit’s hat black?” I said most countrymen in Georgia wore black hats. He looked pretty disappointed. Then he said, “Miss O’Connor, the Misfit represents Christ, does he not?” “He does not,” I said. He looked crushed. “Well, Miss O’Connor,” he said, “what is the significance of the Misfit’s hat?” I said it was to cover his head; and after that he left me alone. Anyway, that’s what’s happening to the teaching of literature.

         Flannery O’Connor, letter, collected in The Habit of Being, ed. Sally Fitzgerald (New York: Macmillan, 1988), 334.

         To Charlotte Gafford

         10 February 62

         […]

         At one place where I talked, one of them said, “Miss O’Connor, why was the Misfit’s hat black?” “Well,” I said, “he stold it from a countryman and in Georgia they usually wear black hats.” This sounded like a pretty stupid answer to him, but he wasn’t through with it. In a few minutes he says, “Miss O’Connor, what is the significance of the Misfit’s hat?” “To cover his head,” I say. When the session was over they obvious thought I didn’t have sense enough to have written the story I wrote.

         […]

         Ibid., 465.

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