Word: absalom
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...deep South dead since 1865 and peopled with garrulous outraged baffled ghosts...and the Quentin Compson who was still too young to deserve yet to be a ghost, but nevertheless having to be one for all that, since he was born and bred in the deep South...--William Faulkner Absalom, Absalom...
...mysterious lover? And what, may we ask, is that orful smell coming from 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...
...GUIDE IS most useful and enjoyable when the respondents describe books that meant much to them in a personal, non-professional, sense. Alan Brinkley, for instance, submitted a list of books which "have given me particular pleasure." Knowing why he likes Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom! or why particular books on Law Professor Martha Minow's shelf "are so worn from re-reading--or missing from the shelf altogether because I keep insisting that someone else read them" is interesting stuff. This book would be a lot better if there were more of it. But there...
...head parliamentary debates, some of which are now nationally broadcast on BBC radio, the Prime Minister has consistently outpointed his Tory challenger. As if in recognition of a tough election fight ahead, Callaghan has begun to launch a few harpoons at his rival. Borrowing from Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel, for example, the Prime Minister has scoffed at Thatcher in the Commons as "Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long." Thatcher, who can indeed be starchy at times, gave an uninspired response to that pointed sally, in which she dismissed...
Master of Ceremonies Archibald Absalom Wellington, smooth as a dagger and just as menacing, introduces his sullen, smoke-eyed cast. Deodatus Village is a half-dressed epitome of black buckdom. The strumpet he struts for is whore-cum-ballet-dancer Stephanie Virtue Secret-rose Diop--"Virtue" for short, which neatly sums up the situation. The curate Diouf pleads for passive religious acceptance; Felicity Trollop Pardon shrieks "Dahomey!" and "Africa!" with an epileptic frenzy; Augusta Snow says little and wears anger like a nimbus round her pout-mouthed head. Genet further burlesque's white perceptions of black names by dubbing...