Open your bibles to the Gospel of John, and you’ll find this: “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.” But if you should find yourself constrained to a narrow frame, ruminating for months on the smile of a beautiful woman, the advisability of various fashion accessories, mysterious strangers, words you can’t hear, and the climactic patterns of smoke presumably once exhaled – with no escape to freedom in sight – perhaps Flannery O’Connor’s paraphrase will be some small solace: “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you odd.”⠀