There are unmistakable references to other American writers, especially Southerners, in Airships. In "Dragged Fighting from His Tomb," a story set during the Civil War, the narrator says: "Nothing a body does disgusts me."
Almost the exact language appears in Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana: "Nothing human disgusts me."
In "Constant Pain in Tuscaloosa," the memory of Flannery O'Connor's Church of Christ without Christ is evoked by a minister's saying, "I.....
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