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Washed Clean
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Lectionary Tales for the Pulpit
Series VI, Cycle C
You may have seen the movie that came out several years ago called O Brother, Where Art Thou?1 the whimsical retelling of Homer's Odyssey set in Mississippi in 1937. Not a bad film, but not exactly Academy Award stuff either. The hero of the piece is a dapper, smooth-talking con man named Ulysses Everett McGill (played by George Clooney). Everett (he goes by his middle name) escapes from a chain gang and brings along the two fellow prisoners chained to him, Pete and Delmar, with the promise of recovering buried treasure from a heist.