Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Culture Break: Faux Faulkner

Back by popular demand: The classic "As I Lay Kvetching" winner of the Faux Faulkner Contest.

An excerpt:

She (the old woman, Mrs. Compson) had spent the better part of the morning waiting for them (the workmen) to arrive, yet they had not come; and when at length they drew the wagon into the yard and tied the mules beneath the scattershot shade of the water oak and climbed down amid the dust and moiling dogs to survey the house, she perceived to her dismay that they were stooges....

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