Great Writers: Pat Conroy, "The Lords of Discipline" Carl Stephenson

Carl Stephenson

six-hour documentary series

boring classes on How to Teach

and his wife Jocasta killed herself

Great Writers: Pat Conroy, "The Lords of Discipline" Carl StephensonPublished: 1976. 562 pagers I wear the ring. I wear the ring and I return often to the city of Charleston, South Carolina, to study the history of my becoming a man. My approach to Charleston is always silent and distracted, but I come under full sail, with hissing silk and memories a wing above me in the shapes of the birds I love best: old brown pelicans, Great Blue herons, cowbirds, falcons lost at sea, ospreys lean from dives, and eagles over