Word: faulknerisms
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...didn't much care for Boston club etiquette, however, cutting short their encore to signal displeasure with the violent slamdancing that a minority of the undoubtedly underage crowd began near the stage. "We can't play if someone's going to hurt someone else," said singer and guitarist Dave Faulkner as the band left the stage in a huff, reaching a clarity of insight and purpose unaccustomed in the Gurus' lyrics...
...City: "Corpse-maker." Atop these replies the Cassidy team piled phrases and phonations from local newspapers, diaries, letters, the Federal Writers' Project state guide series and such other reference works as the Linguistic Atlas of New England. It also scoured more than 500 books of regional literature, including William Faulkner's The Reivers, which contributed one of Cassidy's favorites, bobbasheely, a Deep South word of Indian derivation meaning a very close friend. Out of the resulting mountain of some 2.5 million items, Cassidy and four editors selected the gems for Volume I (which sells for a hefty...
This aspiring Perine Mason and the lustful philosopher get thrown together by the two great college mixers, the introductory writing class and the vacation road trip. In first year writing class. Alison discovers that her writing is as dry as Gib's sex life, while Gib realizes that, Faulkner excepted, writing requires something resembling sentences Their teacher. Professor Traub (Viveca Lindfors), runs her writing class like a laboratory in life, passing by the usual that which distinction for such advice as "Talk to people whose clothes are not color coordinated Make love in a hammock...
...Chiefly through dialogue, he turns what has been the daily routine between a prostitute and the owner of the restaurant she frequents into a collision of moral and life-and-death choices. If this stark story suggests the influence of Hemingway, the next one announces the sway of William Faulkner. Nabo: The Black Man Who Made the Angels Wait (1951) contains a wealthy estate, a black stableboy who has been kicked in the head by a horse, a drooling idiot child and a rhetorical, parenthesis-choked concluding sentence 375 words long...
Charles Ruas speaks in his introduction of personae, archetypes, universal dialogues and seminal experiences. The idea of the Great American Novel hovers feebly over the graves of Faulkner, Fitzgerald and Hemingway. Majestic imaginations recede, literary vision narrows, culture breaks into fragments, and the public slinks off to attend the marriage of arts and leisure...