Requiem for a Nun (22 page)

Temple, followed by Stevens, approaches the door.

Jailor's Voice

(offstage: surprised)

Howdy. Gowan, here's your wife now.

Temple

(walking)

Anyone to save it. Anyone who wants it. If there is none, I'm sunk. We all are. Doomed. Damned.

Stevens

(walking)

Of course we are. Hasn't He been telling us that for going on two thousand years?

Gowan's Voice

(offstage)

Temple.

Temple

Coming.

They exit. The door closes in, clashes, the clash and clang of the key as the Jailor locks it again; the three pairs of footsteps sound and begin to fade in the outer corridor.

Curtain

William Faulkner was an American writer, Nobel Prize laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner. A prolific writer, Faulkner is best known for his novels and short stories, including
The Sound and the Fury
and
As I Lay Dying
, which are set in fictional Yoknapatawpha County, and the Snopes trilogy which includes
The Hamlet
,
The Town
and
The Mansion
. Along with Mark Twain, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams and Harper Lee, Faulkner is considered one of the most important writers of Southern literature, and is known for his experimental style including the use of “stream of consciousness.” Faulkner died in 1962.

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