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The Truth and the Faulkner… Part Deux
By Rachel Smith | May 23, 2008
A sober man’s thoughts are a drunk man’s words…A selection of some of Faulkner’s more profound statements:
“A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.”
“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.”
“Given a choice between grief and nothing, I’d choose grief.”
“Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
“Perhaps they were right in putting love into books… Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”
“The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.”
“If I were reincarnated, I’d want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything. never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.”
“To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.”
Next week is the end of the series on Faulkner trivia. I may even talk Two Stick into making it a category for Two Stick-Trivia-Tuesday. (Tuesdays @ 10 @ 2 Stick, FYI.) My team is unstoppable. Not really. But “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” needs competition.
This is a link to an interactive website to Faulkner’s home, Rowan Oak, in Oxford, MS. Now a museum operated by the University of Mississippi, Rowan Oak is open 10-4 Tuesday through Saturday and 1-4 on Sunday. The grounds are open from dawn til dusk every day.
P.S. It’s not only his grave that is haunted. Faulkner told his children that an old maid flung herself from the balcony of Rowan Oak. She is supposedly buried under the Magnolia tree near the garden.
Topics: Faulkner |
May 23rd, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Did you know that BH4J is my trivia team…? Thanks for the shout out!