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...satisfied with a library that is a shadow of its former self, we proceed, on a tip, to the men's bathroom in Harvard Hall. If you think the men's bathroom could never not be entertaining, think again. With a lone Faulkner quote on the wall--"the past isn't past, it isn't even done"--we are left not only disappointed, but with no excuse to be in the men's bathroom. The women's bathroom, however, offers ample consolation, for on the stalls are a cornucopia of persuasive prose. Wars of words rage over race, gender, sexuality...
...race as the nail upon 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...
...finances. She graduated with honors from high school and went off to Howard University in Washington, at that time an all-black institution. Next came Cornell, where she did graduate studies in English and, after writing a thesis on the theme of suicide in the works of William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf, earned an M.A. degree in 1955. Her degree qualified her to teach English, which she did, first in Texas and then back at Howard; but her familiarity with Faulkner's work proved invaluable when she later began to write fiction. Incantatory Faulknerian cadences crop...
...research will culminate in a planned book, entitled Yazzo Chronicles, on the entire history of the region of the Mississippi Delta made famous by William Faulkner...
Others are even less optimistic about progress to date. "We've just scratched the surface," says Norman L. Sadowsky, chief of radiology and director of the Faulkner-Sagoff Centre for breast health care. "In 25 years we'll look back and say 'they were really primitive in those days...