"...turning her complete attention to whoever spoke to her..."
Si, si, totalmente si. Miss O'Connor had the characteristic of turning her complete attention to whoever spoke to her. Probably to some people, especially in a loquacious community and region, it was an unnerving experience to be looked at in that way. It was an entirely friendly way but was nonetheless a penetrating stare, as if she were Henry James's young writer on whom nothing is lost. This characteristic of Miss O'Connor may help to explain something she once said. She told Louise and me that there were people in Milledgeville who wouldn't come to see her because they were "scared" ["scaiahed"] that she would put them in a book. Tajado inopinadamente de http://flanneryoc.blogspot.com/2025/01/la-mirada-atenta-de-flannery-oconnor.html Lo que describe esa mirada asustadora es para mi la capacidad de mirar al otro con la mirada del espíritu. Es una virtud de clarividencia a desarrollar por cada uno y que sin darnos cuenta ejercitamos con aquella...