I carry absolutely no William Faulkner baggage, with the
exception of the slide show and the interesting comic at the end of the
syllabus. Now, I am slightly terrified as I was hoping for some good reads.
Apparently from what I am learning, I will be downloading a dictionary app to
my phone. As far as his drinking, I can actually understand it if he started
drinking while he was writing. I too, write a bit more or feel more inspired by
the spirits at times. Since I have no prior experience with his works, I read
thirty pages of Faulkner's book, The Sound and the Fury. This is what I have
learned thus far; Faulkner is very abrupt in his transitions (this is an
extreme understatement), also, his characters are not well-defined at the
beginning of his story (you have to read the text and glean clues from it who
the characters are). I am still confused as to who Luster is, I have Caddie as
sister and some of the others figured out, but it has taken a good many pages
to learn this information. If you read it and keep up with his transitions and
Rain Man point of view, I think it is not so bad so far. Oh, and my first
strange word was "ahun". On page 6, he mentions an "ahun
gate". I looked it up and still don't know, I am assuming he means iron.
He does leave mystery in his text as I am still waiting to find out about a few
things, he hasn't gotten around to explaining at all. I am starting to wonder
if this is going to become a pattern throughout the text. I am slightly
intrigued and am excited to be here and looking forward to the course!
Esther Millette
I've seen more pronounced transitions in off-white paint swatches at Lowes than in Faulkner's novels. It is interesting to see where he is going with all these people in Beny's life, perhaps he uses a simple mind to allow us as readers to judge their morality.
ReplyDeleteOnly time will tell--or maybe it won't given Faulkner's tendency to leave more questions than answers in his stories.
"Benjy's" not "Beny's"
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