At its end, the protagonist prays to God to "Break forth and wash the slime from this earth!"
The protagonist of this story tells a woman that he'd pay a fortune to live where the sun balances itself on the peak of a small mountain every evening. Protesting a premarital blood test, the protagonist of this story states that even if they were to "take my heart and cut it out" then "they wouldn't know a thing about me." At its end, the protagonist prays to God to "Break forth and wash the slime from this earth!" just after his boast that he has the best mother in the world provokes his (*) passenger to retort: "My old woman is a flea bag and yours is a stinking pole cat!" before jumping out of his car. The protagonist of this story teaches the word "bird"' to a deaf girl that he marries and abandons at a diner hours later. The title phrase of this story follows the warning "Drive carefully" on a highway road sign. For 10 points, name this story in which the one-armed drifter Tom Shiftlet shows up at the doorstep of Lucynell, by Flannery O'Connor.
The protagonist of this story tells a woman that he'd pay a fortune to live where the sun balances itself on the peak of a small mountain every evening.
"The Life You Save May Be Your Own" 