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The Wild Palms
The Wild Palms: [If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem] | William Faulkner
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In this feverishly beautiful novel�originally titled If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem by Faulkner, and now published in the authoritative Library of America text�William Faulkner interweaves two narratives, each wholly absorbing in its own (…more)
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Graywacke
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Mehso-so

Hmm. Does it work? This novel is actually two separate stories in each in a kind of distinct contrast. Chapters alternate. One is a medical student who abandons his career to run off with a married woman. The other is a convict who gets lost during the 1927 Mississippi flood, and finds himself floating alone in a small boat with a woman in labor.

These stories are ok, but really only for Faulkner completists.

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Graywacke
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I‘ve been working through this as i‘ve had time. I might have finally gotten to the point of enjoying it. The first 150 pages were not all that fun.

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m108i01
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GoneFishing
Wild Palms | William Faulkner

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

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GoneFishing

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.