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The fourth lecture will be on April 7 by Dr. Ann Fisher, also of the University of Virginia. She will speak on Eudora Welty’s “The Golden Apples.” This book is a collection of seven interrelated stories that are as much about a place as any particular person. The place and the people there are nearly the same, a theme recurrent in many of the romantic novelists like Thomas Hardy, Emily Bronte — and even William Faulkner.
The town in “The Golden Apples” is Morgana, Mississippi, where the apples are as golden as those thrown by Hippomenes in his race to win Atalanta. Venus had given him the apples in vindication against the beautiful Atalanta, who had chosen celebacy over marriage — which of course is a ritual over which Venus presides. The marriage was both fated and fatal, and Atalanta and her new husband, who neglected to thank Venus, were turned into beasts.
The heavy theme of fate and of natural law is as strong in “All the King’s Men,” which is the last book in the program, as in “The Golden Apples.” “All the King’s Men,” by Robert Penn Warren, will be discontinued
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