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Author Faulkner likes Joycean agglutinations. Example from Pylon: " 'Deposit five cents for three minutes please,' the bland machine-voice chanted. The metal stalk sweatclutched, the guttapercha bloom cupping his breathing back at him, he listened, fumbled, counting as the discreet click and cling died into wirehum...
...while Mr. Hoeing was walking by Stoughton and Hollis that he smelled a rat and began to stalk his prey just as his illustrious ancestors in colonial days. Only a few half-awake Freshmen raised their heads to watch their doughty proctor encounter the animal with his stick...
Strip women (or strip teasers, as they are called in the trade) do not dance, and the ability to sing is by no means an essential. They stalk about the stage, exercising blandishments and removing as many clothes as local authorities will permit. They are largely responsible for the fact that, with eight empty first class theatres in Manhattan, three burlesque houses on 42nd Street alone are jampacked nightly...
Standing 6 ft. 2 in. high, weighing 190 lb., he charged through the corn. Husking barehanded, with his hook strapped tight to his right hand, he grasped each ear off its stalk tight in his left hand, ripped away the husks with his right, snapped the ear from its stem. Bang-bang-bang went the hard husked ears of bright corn against the tall bangboard-about 40 per minute. Balko fell farther and farther behind in the race down the field, but his wagon box was filling faster. Drenched with sweat, he husked the corn on his own rows quicker...
...parity prices. If farm prices continued to rise, or industrial prices began to fall, or both, parity would be reached and processing taxes would by law become inoperative. Without processing taxes to control production, the agricultural adjustment program would lapse, and the spectre of agricultural oversupply would again stalk the land...