This is, I imagine, the much shorter version of a post I have had simmering in my head for a few weeks now–or, well, actually, many of the issues dovetail with another post that’s been around since new years. But somehow I haven’t sat down to figure out my point rigorously yet, and so I [...]
Continue reading about Making this worth it by going to the streets
Summer, in her Facebook status, immediately pointed out the immediate point of interest to a literature person about Barack Obama’s speech this morning: He messed up the Faulkner quote. In Requiem for a Nun, Faulkner writes, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Obama embellished the quote, saying: As William Faulkner once wrote, [...]
Continue reading about Obama, Faulkner, Mark Antony, and Revolution
