CHRIST-HAUNTED


Bruce Springsteen - "The River" *

"I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted. The Southerner, who isn’t convinced of it, is very much afraid that he may have been formed in the image and likeness of God". (Flannery O'Connor, The Grotesque in Southern Fiction - daqui)

* "Fascinated by director John Huston’s 1979 movie, Wise Blood, recommended by [manager Jon] Landau, Springsteen read the Flannery O’Connor novel that it was based on and then many of her short stories as well. He took the titles of two of her stories, 'The River', and 'A Good Man is Hard Find,', and turned them into song titles. Soon he was employing not just her titles but her techniques as well". (Born In The USA, Geoffrey Himes)

(2011)