But such righteousness in me is not a nice thing to display and who am I for chrissakes anyway

[raybear]

I just had one of those academic moments where you discover a new source that potentially changes the whole thesis you've written in a paper. It got critical for a second, so much so that I wanted to call up my old grad school advisors who read the original piece I wrote a couple years ago (and still hope to tweak and get published somewhere) and

Comments

[anjiyama]

I would like to see another movie if you feel like making one.

I would like to read your paper. I like Faulkner quite a bit.

I pulled a tarot card last night - it did not address my question but instead suggested feeling whatever I was feeling and moving on. It was the better harder answer.

[raybear]

My paper is not about Faulkner, its about long sentences -- intentional run-ons of contemporary fiction v. 19th century tendencies towards longer and more vigorous punctuating prose, the slow changed in grammar over the decades and sentence length, the effect of journalism, the reasons why Hemingway got short, etc. I was flipping through a Faulkner reader last night and read the editor's introduction to The Bear and he claims that the 4th section of this story contains one of the longest sentences in fiction, second to Molly Bloom's soliloquoy in Ulysses (which is mentioned in my paper), and that's what induced my freakout, but after looking at the story, I would argue that simply not using a period is not the same as "a long sentence", at least not for my particular thesis. But! Its an interesting add-on to my paper as another example and source, and luckily nothing as dire as I feared