Word: falkner
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...learning that mattered to him began almost at birth. His childhood in turn-of-the-century Oxford, Miss., was spent listening to Civil War tales told by old men who had been at Shiloh and Appomattox. He absorbed family pride indirectly from his illustrious great-grandfather Colonel William C. Falkner (as the name was then spelled), hero, scoundrel, founder of a railroad and writer who became the doomed, quixotic colonel of Sartoris in 1929. Blotner devotes 50 pages to the recitation of every known fact about the old colonel, forgetting that what history remembers and what Faulkner knew are different...