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re: An SEC legend passed away today (with new Pat Dye quotes)
Posted on 2/19/16 at 4:25 pm to randomways
Posted on 2/19/16 at 4:25 pm to randomways
Harper Lee 
One of the best novels ever written but more importantly, for me anyway, was they was she represented Alabama. We have always said there are 2 Alabama's and only one ever gets talked about publicly. Well, she represented the other Alabama that most of us knew and have loved our whole life. The slow pace of life, warm breezes and good, down home people that are actually very well- spoken. That won't get as many readers in the NYT as a story about a lynching but to most of us Alabamians, what she described was OUR way of life, not the crap always shown about Alabama that was designed by Madison Avenue to both discourage commerce and trade form coming south but also to make sure it went to places such as NYC, Boston, Philly. This media propaganda from the Big Apple still exists to this day BTW.
Also, her and Capote were the first mainstream writers to bring a darker edge into writing. This brought a whole new audience to literature and also a whole new genre of movies to Hollywood.
Thanks for your contributions. You will be missed.
One of the best novels ever written but more importantly, for me anyway, was they was she represented Alabama. We have always said there are 2 Alabama's and only one ever gets talked about publicly. Well, she represented the other Alabama that most of us knew and have loved our whole life. The slow pace of life, warm breezes and good, down home people that are actually very well- spoken. That won't get as many readers in the NYT as a story about a lynching but to most of us Alabamians, what she described was OUR way of life, not the crap always shown about Alabama that was designed by Madison Avenue to both discourage commerce and trade form coming south but also to make sure it went to places such as NYC, Boston, Philly. This media propaganda from the Big Apple still exists to this day BTW.
Also, her and Capote were the first mainstream writers to bring a darker edge into writing. This brought a whole new audience to literature and also a whole new genre of movies to Hollywood.
Thanks for your contributions. You will be missed.
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Posted on 2/19/16 at 4:38 pm to Roses of Crimson
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Also, her and Capote were the first mainstream writers to bring a darker edge into writing.
Indeed. I'd add Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty to that seminal list as well. That whole generation revitalized Southern literature. Faulkner would actually be the example of this, but a lot of his methodology overshadowed this aspect.
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