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Modest Yes. Faulkner lets Temple tell most of the story in confessional flashbacks. To set her sordid saga in symbolic perspective, however, he flanks dramatic dialogue with three incantatory prose sections. Flush with rhetoric and folk humor, these evoke what Faulkner himself calls "the vast splendid limitless panorama of America." They also invoke the high codes and courage Faulkner associates with the Old South, in this case the founders of Jefferson, Miss, in mythical Yoknapatawpha County, seat of Faulkner's fictional kingdom. The Temple Drakes, the Gowan Stevenses and their slack-spined, country-clubbing breed have corrupted these codes...
...officers were shown the "evidence." One exhibit was an oil-soaked piece of flush-riveted metal which North Korea's Colonel Chang Chun San said was part of a napalm bomb dropped by the marauding plane. There were a few small scorched areas and holes that looked as if grenades had been buried and detonated. There were two mothball-sized hunks of metal which, Chang solemnly averred, had struck Nam IPs jeep. Could the U.N. officers see the exhibits by daylight? No, said Chang, they had to be removed for "analysis." Reading from written notes, Chang called...
There were holes in the Red trumpery big enough to drive a T-34 tank through. The piece of flush-riveted metal might have been part of a U.N. plane, but it could not have been part of a napalm bomb, since the casings are not made with flush-riveting. The scorched areas were entirely too small to have been caused by a napalm bomb, which burns up thousands of square feet of terrain. The Chinese soldier gave the show away when he said that the attacking plane had its headlights on; no U.N. air unit attacks with lights...
Other members of the expedition also went down and looked around. They found other caves and a 15-ft. underground torrent that rushed along to a tantalizing disappearance in a closed vault-the water level flush with the top of the vault's entrance. "With proper equipment," said Cosyns, "we may be able to go down . . . perhaps even one thousand meters." And the thought of exploring one kilometer below the earth was something to make any speleologist's eyes bug with anticipation...
...held on suspicion of aiding the bandits. Freed, this man showed Tulio's boys two drums of fuel intended for a local power plant. "If only they hadn't found that fuel!" mourned a San Pedro survivor later. Tulio ordered the town's homes burned, to flush out any possible police ambush, but forbade his men to fire the church or the school...