And one day I found it - on one of those unvisited shelves that at some point cross over from being a place about reading to a plank consigned to storage - beside a copy of The Joy of Sex and something called Slaughterhouse-Five.
No one, though, had explicitly forbidden the book. In Provo, Utah, where I grew up, Mormon children - and in my world that meant all of my friends - reported how just a glimpse resulted in actual, irreversible possession. What my parents matter-of-factly declared too scary, friends confirmed with added notes of hysteria: "Nothing more terrifying!" "The most horrifying film ever made!" "People pass out!"
Mark Danielewski is the author of The Fifty Year Sword. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. John Paul II's 1990 apostolic constitution on Catholic universities.Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Exorcist Author William Peter Blatty The writer voiced gratitude for his education, but lamented "that Georgetown University today almost seems to take pride in insulting the Church and offending the faithful." The Father King Society website listed various ways it believed the university failed to comply with Ex corde Ecclesiae, St. King, a former theology professor at Georgetown who was rumored to be the inspiration for the priestly character in The Exorcist. He formed the Father King Society, a group named for the late Jesuit Fr. In May 2012, he announced a canonical lawsuit against Georgetown for failing to live up to its Catholic identity.
However, he became a leading critic of the school. He received its John Carroll Medal for alumni achievement. In 2000 he prevailed upon his friend, the film's director William Friedkin, to release a special director's cut of the film that made the triumph of good over evil more explicit, the New York Times reports.īlatty graduated from Georgetown University in 1950, and parts of the campus were used to film The Exorcist. Blatty voiced concern that the film's climax, in which the younger priest goads the demon into possessing him and then jumps to his death, appeared to give victory to the demon.
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