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Flannery O'Conner brings us to a new South. It is a post-apocalyptic South, an unhallowed land stretching itself somewhere after the departure from the Garden, the death of Christ, the Northern triumph in the Civil War, and the suicide of Faulkner's Quentin Compson. Her Southerners are the bewildered emancipees, the tight-lipped orphans of an erotic, innocent past. They are nothing but sinners. Where Faulkner's characters are sinners, the eroticism of their South, its very sound and fury, is their redemption. But Flannery O'Conner's characters are arrested in the thicket of their psychological-situational...
Another man in the middle, Ulster's Prime Minister Brian Faulkner, has tried to serve as a balancing force against Protestant extremists, even though he has lost all credibility with the Catholics. He denounced the march at Newry last week as "an exercise in irresponsible brinkmanship. " But he also told Protestants that they must accept more Catholics in the Stormont government or "dig still deeper trenches for a long and bloody battle...
Direct Defiance. The Bogside demonstration, which was organized by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, was a Catholic protest against the internment of I.R.A. suspects. It was also a defiant challenge to Prime Minister Brian Faulkner's twelve-month extension of a ban on parades in Ulster by Catholics and Protestants alike. Somewhere between 3,000 and 15,000 Catholics had gathered in Londonderry, where British troops in 1969 were first called in to protect Catholics from rioting Protestants. Last week, as the demonstrators moved down William Street toward the Bogside, they sang, among other songs, We Shall Overcome...
...Ulster to "an acceptable level," as Maudling recently described its aim. The Londonderry killings, moreover, succeeded only in polarizing still further Ulster's divided Catholic and Protestant communities -and in strengthening the hands of extremists on both sides. The recently split Unionist ranks now have closed behind Faulkner and his no-nonsense rejection of any form of Irish unification. From Stormont came cold statements blaming the marchers for "a meaningless and futile terrorist exercise." The typical Protestant worker's reaction was expressed by one laborer in a Belfast pub last week when he said, "I wish...
Such a vision--whose form follows in the tradition of the nouveau roman--presents some challenging difficulties. But not without rewards: as sonorous and mysteriously evocative as Faulkner's, more poetically intense than Lawrence Durrell's, Hawkes's lyrical energy in The Blood Oranges conveys in prose more than the feeling of poetry--in fact, there are whole passages rendered metrically. One or two even contain rhymes...