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Dian Parker's avatar

The soul. The soul. The soul. Why does nobody today speak of the soul/our inner, deepest self, the moral ethical self? There's just so much talk of the self now- me, me, me.

I love this! Thanks again for bringing this to the table.

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Joey DeFilippis's avatar

The soul is still alive!!!

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Dian Parker's avatar

Thank goodness for that!

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Angela Cummings's avatar

Thank you for this. I hadn’t read a Faulkner novel in decades but recently picked up “Absalom, Absalom” which I am reading for the first time. It is surpassing all his other work for me. What a thrill to be reintroduced to his singular voice, storytelling, and piercing look into the human mind and soul.

This, today cements my regard for his intuitive and cunning yet hopeful view of art and humanity.

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Samuel Schaefer's avatar

This is a fantastic piece! I think it is so key to reading Faulkner's novels. They're so dark and tragic, but its important to realize that he cares deeply about depicting something about the soul through that tragedy.

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Jeff Rymes's avatar

Bueno

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Debra O's avatar

Even truer today, 73 years later...The Sound, The Fury...yet clearly Faulkner believed it signified something other than nothing?

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KR (Kenneth Rosen)'s avatar

O the chaos of courage and its conveyance's ingredients! In William's case it included acuity, amusement, splendor and lots and lots of bourbon.

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Oganga Mangiti's avatar

I think … once we lose our why, we lose our ability to feel... and once feeling is lost, the poet and writer loses himself... and at times... it takes a very long time before he can sound like himself, or an evolved version of himself because he will be so far-gone.

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JASON RICHARDS.'s avatar

Oh 73 years ago.i apologize and was rushing through e mails.I was so moved and thought for a minute Dian Parker wrote it.Im burnt out on writing and tired..

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