“A Man of all Seasons” compared to “Opposite of the South.”

I think, ironically, these two pieces are the opposites of each other.  Kourtney’s piece is about seeing a man that we all see as a priest, but who is a really extraordinary person, where Birkerts’ piece is about him trying to self-identify himself. Mark Andrew Moore seems like the person that is taken for granted a lot and people don’t usually see his true uniqueness—everybody is caught-up on the title of priest, so they think that’s all he is. Birkerts seems wildly confused about his place in the world and in some ways feels like he has to identify himself based on where he comes from versus looking at his true self to just be. I like the idea of titles (Priest and Northerner) as modes of misperception, as if these titles are self-explanatory and any other title that these people could be given would be contradictory.