Word: absalom
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David's family begins to implode. His son, Amnon, falls in love with and then rapes his half-sister Tamar. Disgusted with Tamar, Amnon sends her away from his tent. Tamar's protective brother Absalom then seeks vengeance by murdering Amnon. David's legacy suffers. He loses the opportunity to build the Temple, a privilege he had long coveted...
...Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner
Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose is a "book." It is the 51st installment of the Library of America series, the black-jacketed, red-white-and-blue-striped, gold-embossed collection from the people who bring you Penguin Classics. You might have read Absalom, Absalom out of one. Library of America specializes in collections of novels widely available in paperback which--when tastefully reset and bound in cloth--somehow warrant a $35 price...
...Crimson compared the prices of popular textbooks at The Coop, Wordsworth and Harvard Bookstore yesterday. BookThe Coop Wordsworth Harvard Bookstore John Rawis, "A Theory of Justice" 18.95 17.06 11.95 Aristotle, "The Politics" 13.50 10.76 13.50 William Faulkner, "Absalom, Absalom" 12.00 10.80 12.00 James Joyce, "Ulysses" 17.00 15.30 17.00 James Goodwin, "Remembering America" 13.00 11.70 13.00 Riverside Shakespeare 62.00 60.00 59.25 Source: Crimson survey
...which American identity is hung comes from Pap, in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, who upon learning a Negro could vote in Ohio, "drawed out. I says I'll never vote ag'in." Without his glowing white mask he is not American; he is Faulkner's character Wash, in Absalom, Absalom!, who, stripped of the mask and treated like a "nigger," drives a scythe into the heart of the rich white man he has loved and served so completely...