Flannery O'Connor

Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American writer and essayist. She wrote two novels and thirty-two short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries.

9 posts

Probably Problematic

by Pierre-Simon Laplace and others in Figures of Speech Nov 9, 2025 — 6 min read

Come on, whoever doubts mathematics as being metaphysical is completely and flat-footed as a materialist.

Swift Calculated Tyranny

by Niccolò Machiavelli and others in Figures of Speech Nov 8, 2025 — 6 min read

The approach of the tyrannical ruler is barbaric self-revealing brought to the surface for us all to remember. Not all madness is created equally. Absurd at times, yet ironically pragmatic, however perverse.

Why Banish the Poets Then?

by Plato and others in Figures of Speech Oct 31, 2025 — 8 min read

Deontological Algorithms

by René Descartes and others in Figures of Speech Oct 30, 2025 — 7 min read

Are you being sarcastic?

by Flannery O'Connor and Sylvia Plath in Figures of Speech Oct 27, 2025 — 3 min read

Existential Adaptations

by David Hume and others in Figures of Speech Aug 3, 2024 — 6 min read

Ironic? Yes. Funny? No!

by Samuel Beckett and others in Figures of Speech Aug 3, 2024 — 6 min read

The Inner Socratic Method

by Walt Whitman and Flannery O'Connor in Figures of Speech Mar 25, 2023 — 3 min read

Language Functions as an Antidote to Chaos

by Arthur Schopenhauer and others in Figures of Speech Mar 25, 2022 — 3 min read

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