In my continued effort to read all things PAL, especially in the Southern Stoic tradition, I reread To Kill a Mockingbird as we had another nice few days at the beach. What a wonderful book, if a little overt--between Tom Robinson and Boo Radley and The Gray Ghost and Mrs. Dubose. And the stoicism sure is there--in Atticus' consistency in public and private and his refusal to choose his family over his public duty; in Mrs. Dubose's determined choices as she neared death.
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