William Faulkner

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 3:08am

I'm just now starting to get into his works. Really really cool writing style.

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 3:18am

I want to read more of his work, but I adore As I Lay Dying.

[HorseTears]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 3:20am

Ah. You're taking me back to High School English. I adored The Sound and the Fury.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 3:26am

I really like how it's absolutely impossible to speed-read AS I LAY DYING.

[nmartin]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 8:05am

You can not speed-read anything by Faulkner.
Cruel, be sure you read his Southern gothic short story, A Rose for Emily. Arguably, the best short story ever written.

[lovelyspotlight]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 9:15am

The Sound and the Fury is one of my favorite works of literature. I love it.

[nmartin]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 9:19am

I pm'd this to Cruel the other day but if any of you find your way to Oxford, MS, Faulkner is buried there and his home Rowan Oak is open to the public. It is run by Ole Miss and well worth a visit.

Updated On: 2/11/08 at 09:19 AM

[best12bars]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 9:53am

nmartin---My great-great-great (yes, three times) grandfather built Rowan Oaks in Oxford, Mississippi. Colonel Sheegog. My great grandfather Samuel Atkinson was the last to be born on the family plantation before it was sold.

I've never been to see it! Several of my cousins have been and taken the tour. They say it's great, and I'm sure I will go someday.

I have two sets of pearl-handled silver steak knifes that are native to the original plantation and its owners, plus a few other silver pieces. I will very likely donate them to the museum there, later in life, if they want them.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 9:56am

Why, Besty! I do declare! Southern aristocracy in our midst!

[best12bars]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 10:06am

PJ--Plantation owners on one side, and staunch abolitionists and cavalry generals on the other. My mom's descendants are a virtual civil war unto themselves.

And Russian peasant immigrants who helped run Warner Bros. on my dad's side.

I'm a mutt, but I love all the history of it.

Signed,
Rhett12bars

[nmartin]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 10:11am

Best, I pm'd you with an anecdote about Rowan Oak and a great deal of envy.

This thread has inspired me to reread Faulkner, which is a good thing.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 2:41pm

"If ere was ere a misfortunate man."