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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...
...mysterious lover? And what, may we ask, is that awful smell coming form the attic of Miss Emily's...Wait a minute! Don't wanna give it all away, heh heh. But this is a story to put chest on your hairs, and it beats plowing through Absalom, Absalom!, another potentially potent 'Ween read...
Rising abruptly from the eastern Nevada desert, snow-capped Wheeler Peak has long been a regional attraction. Visitors began arriving in 1885, after Rancher Absalom Lehman discovered vast limestone caves in the neighboring foothills. Swinging a sledgehammer to cut paths through forests of stalactites and stalagmites, Lehman then led candlelight tours through the caves for a dollar a head. After President Warren G. Harding declared the caves a national monument in 1922, Manager Clarence Rhodes rented them out for weddings, dances and initiation ceremonies for the Knights of Pythias, who frolicked in clouds of sulfurous smoke wearing costumes...