One character in this story melodramatically repeats an anecdote about a doctor who cut a heart out of a man's chest andheld it in his hand to a taciturn woman who sits "as if she were the owner of the sun.
One character in this story melodramatically repeats an anecdote about a doctor who cut a heart out of a man's chest andheld it in his hand to a taciturn woman who sits "as if she were the owner of the sun." In the fiÂnal paragraph of this story, aturnip-shaped cloud and a "guawing peal of thunder" descend on a character after he exclaims, "Break forth and wash theslime from this earth!" In this story, a character who claims to be a carpenter visits a farm where he repairs the garden houseroof and resurrects a "1928 or '29 Ford" that hasn't run for Âftfifteen years. At the end of this story, a boy screams, "My old womanis a flea bag and yours is a stinking polecat!" before jumping out of a moving vehicle. Its one-armed main character marries adeaf, mute girl who can only say the word "bird," in exchange for her mean, elderly mother buying a new coat of green painton a car. The protagonist of this story abandons Lucynell Crater at a diner hours after marrying her before seeing a highwaysign with the title warning. For 10 points, name this short story about the tramp Tom Shiftftlet by Flannery O'Connor.
One character in this story melodramatically repeats an anecdote about a doctor who cut a heart out of a man's chest andheld it in his hand to a taciturn woman who sits "as if she were the owner of the sun.
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