He knew something was going to happen and his entire system was waiting on it. He thought it was going to be one of the supreme moments in life but apart from that, he didn't have the vaguest notion what it might be. He pictured himself, after it was over, as an entirely new man, with an even better personality than he had now. He sat there for about fifteen minutes and nothing happened. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1983). Three by Flannery O'Connor: Wise blood, The violent bear it away, Everything that rises must converge, Signet Classics
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