I've never crossed paths with The Sound And The Fury. I do vaguely recall having to read As I Lay Dying for a high school English class. (*) Yeah, that quickly became a "Cliff Notes" project.
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As for Rat's comment in the middle panel, I did say that about Waiting For Godot in a freshman English Lit class at Penn State. Hey, the prof asked for our honest opinions. I guess what he really meant was our honest positive opinions.
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(*) : ISTR (but could easily be wrong) that there is one chapter in As I Lay Dying that's something like one sentence long. Some last-gasp thought by whoever is lying around dying. Maybe. Maybe not. I've been quite successful at purging my brain cells of anything having to do with Faulkner.
Thursday, July 02, 2009
The thing about Faulkner is...
I've never crossed paths with The Sound And The Fury. I do vaguely recall having to read As I Lay Dying for a high school English class. (*) Yeah, that quickly became a "Cliff Notes" project.
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As for Rat's comment in the middle panel, I did say that about Waiting For Godot in a freshman English Lit class at Penn State. Hey, the prof asked for our honest opinions. I guess what he really meant was our honest positive opinions.
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(*) : ISTR (but could easily be wrong) that there is one chapter in As I Lay Dying that's something like one sentence long. Some last-gasp thought by whoever is lying around dying. Maybe. Maybe not. I've been quite successful at purging my brain cells of anything having to do with Faulkner.
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I loved As I Lay Dying in high school. It was one of the only books in HS that I liked, and it was what got me writing seriously and reading again after a huge absense. The Sound and the Fury is less impressive.
the chapter you're thinking of is from the youngest kid, who is mentally handicapped. It says, "My mother is a fish." It was on page 79 of the edition I had in my english class in fall 1995.
That was it!! I liked that chapter. Funny how little things like that stick in the memory.
I know. I mean, why in the world would I remember that page number? I guess it's because that chapter was so memorable. When people don't remember anything else from faulkner, they remember "My mother is a fish." 5 words...huge name in history.
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