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Paul Gray, who wrote the analysis of Southern fiction in Books, has admired William Faulkner "since I was young enough to have a hero." He remembers, from the days when he was an undergraduate at Ole Miss, watching the man he calls "the genius of the South" walking through Oxford, undisturbed by students or townspeople...
...Faulkner was speaking for Southerners when he said, "The past is not dead; it isn't even past." Having recently moved North after a life spent mostly in the South, I find Northerners wondering why Southerners talk as if the past were real. I tell them that in the South, we have been busy for a long time trying to sort out the past worth keeping from the past worth getting rid of. It's a job that connects us with most of the world's people today-the vital business of achieving a particular identity...
...Thomas Hardy's works. As he grew he took educational side excursions like Hitler's Mein Kampfand Darwin's The Origin of Species. Carter and his wife studied a bit of art history, and of course he read much of the literature of the South, William Faulkner being a principal source. Like John Kennedy, Carter had fun along the way too. He has read with some relish, he confesses, most of the James Bond spy thrillers...
...other influential woman in Carter's life is his mother, "MISS LILLIAN" (pronounced Lee-yun), a redoubtable personality who would have fascinated William Faulkner and Bertolt Brecht. Says she: "Everything I started, I finished. Jimmy got that from me." Indeed, she bequeathed him his pearly teeth, his smile, his inquisitiveness, his endurance -and, fans say, his compassion...
...foreign policy. "I've got a lot to learn, and I know it," he repeats to groups of supporters, "but I think I am able to learn from good friends like you." His interests range far beyond politics. He is well read; his favorite authors include James Agee, William Faulkner and Dylan Thomas, though most recently Carter has concentrated on politics, philosophy, history, foreign affairs, taxation policy and the like. His tastes in music range from Dmitri Shostakovich to Dylan. While politicking, his energy and concentration are legendary. Campaigning recently in Mississippi, he shook the hand of a department-store...