Here’s a very astute line from Flannery O’Connor. It’s quoted from the short story, “Enoch and the Gorilla” in The Complete Stories. However, you can read about the same incident in her novel, Wise Blood.
The virtue of hope, in Enoch, was made up of two parts suspicion and one part lust.
Thanks for posting this line on the 16th. I went looking for it today, the 20th, and was glad it was here just four days before I needed it.