Part 1 begins here, and part 2 (on Clement of Rome) continues here.Flannery O'Connor When novelist and short story Writer Flannery O'Connor spoke to Eastern Lansing High School in 1956, she "said that modern writers must often tell perverse stories to shock a morally blind world. Later, when she addressed Notre Dame that same year, "O'Connor insisted that her own use of the grotesque was meant