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Dear Sir or Madam: The study of time in Faulkner’s major works has invaded my life and become my passion. One unfortunate side effect is my complete inability to consider the future, much like many of Faulkner’s characters. Emulating Quentin in The Sound and the Fury, I’ve destroyed my watch and begun wandering through Cambridge, searching for my lost youth. Please understand that while my level of understanding grows deeper each day, my connection to these texts is tenuous at best, and cannot be disturbed by such time-anchored requirements like...
...Anzac legend. Now, in The Great War (Macmillan; 860 pages), he looks at the Australians on the western front, the 750-km line of trenches that snaked through France and Belgium. In the national memory of the war, Gallipoli is the big event. Places like Fromelles, Bullecourt, Mont Saint Quentin are "hardly spoken of," Carlyon writes. Yet they should be bywords for valor?and tragedy. Most of the 324,000 volunteers who sailed off to the war, and many who survived Gallipoli, served in the cold and mud of Flanders and the Somme. There "they did things Australians have never...
...domination by machines?artillery, bombs, tanks, planes, machine guns?only underscored the humanity of the combatants. For Carlyon the war was "the biggest tragedy in our history." But those who took part did "astonishing things," he writes?like the capture of the heavily defended fortress of Mont St. Quentin by a few hundred Diggers. What Carlyon writes of them could stand for all the Australians on the western front: "The spirit of these men was extraordinary." And his book is a hymn...
...watching The Shining at sleepovers while Mom and Dad slept in the next room. The Old Guard of horror directors, including Craven and Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), has welcomed the newcomers, inviting them to its Masters of Horror dinner parties in Hollywood (also occasionally attended by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, who are co-directing a slasher double-feature called Grindhouse, due next year). And for men (and it is all men) who spend their lives coming up with vile ways to kill people, the horror club is awfully warm and fuzzy. "I'm just so happy...
...double feature. I'm in Robert's movie, but Quentin does the scenes with me. He runs alongside of me screaming things...