The administrator of the unformzed site has closed registration, so I cannot ask my question there. I scrolled through the ITD discussion thread and found no comments on O'Connor, though the O'Connor-influenced songs "Joy," "The River," and "No Girl So Sweet" are often listed as favourites.

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Thanks for the leads DrDark. I am intrigued that the topic of O'Connor's influence "has come up many times before" in earlier forums on PJ. I hope some of those commentators will be willing to revisit the topic and pass on their insights.

Recorded remarks like the one you have supplied me with ...

Thanks for the quick response Yes-No-Maybe-So. Reviewers of ITD? that I have read, on both sides of the Atlantic, did not pick up on the O'Connor connections on the album. One reviewer, fora example, thought the song "Joy" made reference to the poet William Blake. PJ is in fact singing about a ...

I'm a literary scholar and pop culture critic researching for a book about Flannery O'Connor's influence on contemporary singer-songwriters. A fellow pop culture critic directed me to Harvey's Is This Desire? recording. Three of the songs on that recording bear considerable evidence of O'Connor's ...