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“Mississippi,” 133

miscegenation, in Faulkner’s work, 8, 154–6, 244–5n.8

in Faulkner’s family, 124–7

Moby Dick
(Melville), 178

Moreland, Richard C., 243n.4

Mosquitoes
, 12, 14, 21–2,
28–31
, 32, 34–6, 48, 57–8, 81, 116, 124, 134

“must matter,” 228–37

My Brother Bill
(John [Johncy] Falkner), 37, 46, 92, 121

New Orleans Sketches
, 24–5, 134

Ober, Harold, 218, 230, 232–3

Oldham, Lemuel, 79

Omlie, Vernon, 105–7

One Matchless Time
(Parini), 4, 236, 242n.6

Origins of Faulkner’s Art, The
(Sensibar), 21, 43, 241n.4

Parini, Jay, 4, 236, 242n.6

Parker, Dorothy, 20–1

Patton, Nelse, 123

Phil Stone of Oxford
(Snell), 242nn.2–3

Plessy v. Ferguson
, 121 Pound, Ezra
(Cantos)
, 145

Prall, Elizabeth, 69, 79

Pylon
, 104,
107–11
, 193, 225

as anti-capitalist, 108–10

as extravagance, 107–8

flight and death in, 109–11

race, as civil rights turmoil, 115–9

as dark twinship, 115–7, 165–6

as segregation and violence, 120–3

as stereotype, 128, 158

Rebner, Wolfgang, 170–1, 182–5

Reivers, The
, 10, 45, 227

retrospection, 2–3

Requiem for a Nun
, 3, 107, 178, 196, 216, 219, 222, 236

Sanctuary
, 9, 18, 20, 31, 36, 61, 78–9, 82–3, 87–8,
91–7
, 178, 192–3, 211, 241n.2

distress in, 92–4

rape in, 91–7

transmogrification in, 92–4

Sartoris
, 18

See also Flags in the Dust

Scott, Evelyn, 81, 236

Selected Letters of William Faulkner
, 3, 43, 76, 81, 85, 87, 115, 118, 122, 132, 158, 170, 177, 218, 229–32, 245n.6

Sensibar, Judith, 21, 43, 240–1nn.1–4, 241–2n.1, 243n.2, 245n.4

Pygmalion
(Shaw), 219

Smith, Harrison (Hal), 61, 86, 92, 169–70, 186, 225

Snell, Susan, 242nn.2–3

Soldiers’ Pay
, 12, 14,
26–8
, 31, 32, 35, 36, 81, 134

The Sound and the Fury
, 9, 12, 18, 20–1, 23, 31, 33, 36, 42–5,
48–61
64–5, 81–2, 85, 87,
88–91
, 94–5, 110,
134–7
, 192–4, 211, 224, 236, 240n.2

biographical echoes in, 59–60

childhood in, 51, 53–6, 60–1

diagnosis of the South in, 55–6

interior monologue in, 56–9

Norton Critical edition of, 49, 55, 61, 83

racial nostalgia in, 134–7

temporal dislocation in, 49–56, 60–1

untimeliness in, 88–91

virginity in, 88, 212

Stein, Jean, 23, 52, 170, 220–1

Stone, Phil, 11, 13, 15, 17, 21, 34, 68–70, 79, 173, 230–1

“Stranger in the Village” (Baldwin), 138

Stumbling.
See
unpreparedness

Summers, Jill Faulkner, 21, 105, 112–3, 128, 170–1, 175–6, 180–1, 190, 196, 217, 220, 226, 228–9, 240–1n.2

Sun Also Rises, The
(Hemingway), 14

Sundquist, Eric, 245n.8

Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 21

Tate, Allen, 84, 86

Tempest, The
(Shakespeare), 227

Thinking of Home
(Watson), 71–3, 78, 83, 122

Thirsty Muse, The
(Dardis), 244nn.1–3

Till, Emmett, 132

Time, as assault, 6–7, 17–18, 85–8, 91–7

in biographies, 3–4, 8–9

as failed “becoming,” 1–5

as micro-time and macro-time, 6–7

as progress, 7–8

as retrospection
(“was”)
, 2–3, 11, 17, 20–1

as tension between
“was”
and
“is,”
11, 17–8, 23–4, 36, 52, 60–1, 73, 91

as unpreparedness (“is”), 2–4, 7–8, 11, 17, 20–1, 88, 91–7

See also
unpreparedness

Today We Live
(Hawks), 187

Tolstoy, Leo, 178, 245n.5

Town, The
, 66, 107, 178, 189, 201, 226

Twain, Mark, 45, 227

Ulysses
(Joyce), 60, 224–5, 241n.5

“unclotting.”
See
unpreparedness

unpreparedness, 1–3, 5–10, 73, 80–8, 101–3, 111–2, 176–7, 210–6, 235–7

See also
time

untimeliness.
See
unpreparedness

Unvanquished, The
, 114, 156, 158, 168, 225

Vardaman, James, 12

Verlaine, Paul (“Fantoches”), 78

Vision in Spring
, 22

War and Peace
(Tolstoy), 178, 245n.5

Warner, Jack, 217

Wasson, Ben, 18, 19, 34, 42, 48–9, 86, 87, 182

Watson, James G., 71–3, 78, 242n.4

Weinstein, Philip, 129–30, 244n.5

What Else But Love?
(Weinstein), 129, 244n.5

White Rose of Memphis, The
(W. C. Falkner), 75

Wilde, Meta Carpenter Rebner, 113, 168, 170–1, 179–85, 187–90, 196, 198, 202, 204, 217–9

Wilson, James, 85, 86

William Faulkner: Self-presentation and Performance
(Watson), 242n.4

William Faulkner and Southern History
(Williamson), 72, 86, 122–7, 175, 184, 243n.3

William Faulkner: une vie en romans
(Bleikasten), 4, 73, 239n.2, 242n.5, 243n.9

Williams, Joan, 170, 218–20

Williamson, Joel, 72, 86, 122–7

Wolfe, Thomas, 84, 225

Woodward, C. Vann
(The Burden of Southern History)
, 121, 243n.1

Yardley, Jonathan, 5

Yeats, W. B., 217

Young, Stark, 69, 79

Monument of the “Old Colonel” (William C. Falkner), cemetery in Ripley, Mississippi.
From the Jane Isbell Hanes Collection, Center for Faulkner Studies, Southeast Missouri State University.

Maud Butler Falkner and her infant son William, c. 1900.
Cofield Collection, Southern Media Archive, Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries.

The Falkner boys: Murry, William, John, and Dean, Oxford, Mississippi, c. 1910.
Cofield Collection, Southern Media Archive, Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries.

Jaunty William Faulkner in flying officer’s uniform, December 1918.
Cofield Collection, Southern Media Archive, Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries.

Estelle Oldham Franklin and her daughter Victoria, Shanghai, c. 1924.
From the Brodsky Collection, Center for Faulkner Studies, Southeast Missouri State University.