Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WELCOME yet another dusted off manuscript from the dark regions of scholardom, but make your welcome short and get on with your business. But if you have nothing else to do, if you're in the the throes of existential crisis, you can always justify your passivity by actively avoiding Flags in the Dust. If that doesn't work, you can read the damn thing and claim to have read two novels--a sure fire way to improve your reading speed. Flags is the original manuscript version of Sartoris, Faulkner's earliest novel of the sprawling Yoknapatawpha County he would...
...editing was not all that extensive. For instance, certain secondary characters are less strongly emphasized in Sartoris. Their illumination in Flags neither detracts nor adds to the work as a whole. Faulkner is so easy to read and reread, that the few new twists to Flags in the Dust might just as well be so many new spices in an already hot-spiced chicken gumbo, doing nothing for its flavor...
Small Changes almost totally lacks that earlier book's homely virtues. The dust jacket says that Miss Piercy has become active in the feminist movement, and instead of creating believable characters, she has set some stick figures in motion to illustrate her conviction that women would be better off if they organized their lives without men. There are two main characters. Beth is a plain girl from a very simple background who runs away from a brutalizing husband and settles in Boston, where she becomes involved in women's communes and lesbianism. Miriam is a brilliant beauty...
...Dust swirled up from the road as I walked around Bordersville last month with 70-year-old Alfred Phillips, the eldest member of Bordersville's most community-minded family. "The water came all up in here when it rained last month," the old man said, pointing to the front of a sagging wooden shack trimmed with Christmas tree lights. "All the water flows down here from the main road. This is Louis Welsh Street, the worst street in Bordersville." A hundred yards up the road, Louis Welsh Street intersected Martin Luther King Avenue, then disappeared into the thick Texas brush...
...convertible, The Great Red Shark, accompanied by his Samoan attorney. Ostensibly he is on assignment for an East Coast sporting magazine to cover the Mint 400, a renowned motorcycle race. But the story is thwarted when the plush and highly sophisticated atmosphere of the race is choked with desert dust, and press coverage becomes as futile as "trying to keep track of a swimming meet in an Olympicsized pool filled with talcum powder instead of water...