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William Faulkner: Writings
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In 1918, after the U.S. Army rejected him for being underweight and too short (5 feet 5 inches), Faulkner enlisted in the Canadian Air Force. During his brief service in World War I (1914–18; a war that involved most countries in Europe as well as many other nations in the world, and in which the United States participated from 1917–18), he suffered a leg injury in a plane accident. In 1918 he left the air force and returned home to Oxford.
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--- According to Faulkner's nephew, James Faulkner, the church which Thomas Sutpen "rode fast to" --- and in which he was married --- in ABSALOM, ABSALOM! is the same church, College Hill Presbyterian Church, in which Faulkner married Estelle Oldham Franklin in 1929.
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NOTE: THE CHORUS OF SOUNDS Christmas thinks he hears what Faulkner refers to as "myriad sounds." A similar expression appeared in Chapter 4, when Byron was taking Lena to town and again when Hightower and Byron were talking. In the first instance it described the townspeople abuzz with the rumors of Burden's murder. In the second it described the insects chirping outside Hightower's house. Here the reference is less specific. Many kinds of sound seem to be emerging from Christmas's memory, and indeed the next seven chapters will take you into that memory.
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The book generally regarded as Faulkner's masterpiece, The Sound and the Fury (1929), is a radical departure from conventional novelistic form. It uses a stream-of-consciousness method, rendering a different type of mentality in each of its four sections. The title, taken from Macbeth's utterance of cosmic despair in Shakespeare's play, is a clue to the profound pessimism of the novel, which records the decay and degeneracy of the Compson family and, by implication, of the aristocratic South. It is difficult to read, and Faulkner's "Appendix," written much later at the publisher's request, hardly clarifies it.
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Died, at her daughter's home in this city, Mrs. E. Faulkner, aged 72 years. She had been very feeble for a long time. Everything a good and kind daughter could do was done to make her comfortable. The funeral was held at the Baptist church, Friday, Sept. 18, Rev Grant preaching the sermon.
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In June 1962, Faulkner suffered his third fall from a horse. He was in constant pain, and his health was failing quickly. On July 6, 1962, Faulkner died of a heart attack at the age of 64, on his great-grandfather’s birthday.
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