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, [...]
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