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...know, since I am a man," wrote Ernest Hemingway, "is a man's life"--meaning that the most complicated subject he knew was himself. Complexity is a sort of macho/metaphysical burden. But maybe the smokescreen of the "complicated" is also the beginning of the storyteller's art. ("Bill! Bill Faulkner, where have you been for the last three days?" "It's a complicated story, dear...
...Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner...
...Light in August, William Faulkner...
19.As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner...
10.The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner...