The girl had taken the Ph.D. in philosophy and this left Mrs. Hopewell at a complete loss. You could say, ‘My daughter is a nurse,’ or ‘My daughter is a school teacher,’ or even, ‘My daughter is a chemical engineer.’ You could not say, ‘My daughter is a philosopher.’ That was something that had ended with the Greeks and Romans. All day Joy sat on her neck in a deep chair, reading. Sometimes she went for walks but she didn’t like dogs or cats or birds or flowers or nature or nice young men. She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.

—Flannery O’Connor, “Good Country People”

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]]> http://veneratedcoconut.com/2012/04/11/but-she-didnt-like-dogs-or-cats/feed/ 0 http://veneratedcoconut.com/2010/07/08/1995the-final-lt-1995-post10/ http://veneratedcoconut.com/2010/07/08/1995the-final-lt-1995-post10/#comments Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:11:48 +0000 Anastasia http://kirtiklis.com/?p=2458 This is it, the last batch of photos from Lithuania/Lietuva 1995. The various images are Klaipeda/Nida, Vilnius, and Andrius and Kristina at home, dressed for September 1st, the first day of the school year.