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19. joseph Conrad, Victory (New York, 1915), Part II, Chapter 3. 20. 46-8. 21. F. W. Nietzsche, The Birth rif Tragedy (1872), translated by Francis Golffing (New York, 1956), pp. 93-112. 22. j. H. 180. 23. john Coulson, Religion and Imagination (Oxford, 1982), Chapter 4. 24. Edwin Muir, An Autobiography (London, 1954), p. 280. 25. William Wordsworth, The Prelude (1850) Book V, lines 595-605. 2 Mystery and Mediation: Reflections on Flannery O'Connor and Joan Didion D. Z. Phillips I At a time when professions of faith are made in a muted voice, or with a deadening insensitivity to difficulty and application in human life, the following words of Simone Weil startle us with their bold directness: There is a reality outside the world, that is to say, outside space and time, outside man's mental universe, outside any sphere whatsoever that is accessible to human facilities.
A mystery revealed is not like a problem solved or a puzzle dissolved. One feeds on the mystery. What the story shows is one possibility of a way in which a mystery is mediated through the application it has in relation to possible ways of thinking of other people. The possibility 40 Images European devotion to the classics wanted to establish some affinity. Robert Lowth (171087) as professor of poetry at Oxford devoted his research to biblical poetry. 2 Lesser people have followed in this train down to the present. Outstanding among these was Horace M. Kallen whose advocacy The Book if Job as a Greek Tragedy (New York 1918) still deserves rereading. Kallen believed that 'the original choral odes were later removed from their position 44 Images of Belie] in Literature in the tragedy and "hifted into the dialogue to conceal the resemblance of a Greek play'.