as i lay dying...(my mother is a fish)

[crazy_for_books]

World-renowned librarian of the universe Heather died today in a hospital in Solon. Doctors are still unsure of what exactly caused the death, but believe it was due to complications after Heather loved too fast and suffered pains in her elbow. She was three years old

Comments

[midwest_siren]

Spacious? Perfect!

[crazy_for_books]

Yeah, that was a serendipitous choice. Spacious definitely describes our illustrious leader.

[robotapocalypse]

Vardaman!

[crazy_for_books]

Thank you! I was trying to explain this novel to Ed the other day, and I could come up with the quote but not the name of the kid who says it. Oh, Faulkner, did you know that you would one day become the bane of English majors everywhere? I suspect you did.

[robotapocalypse]

I've always liked that name on that character. It's a classical, formal sounding name, like you'd expect to see at the bottom of an important document. It would be followed by an initial and a prestigious last name, and probably by a Roman numeral. It would belong to a member of an old and influential family.

Except it doesn't. It belongs to a character who is either a young boy, a retarded not-so-young boy, or Faulknerian idiot man child* who has only a hazy grasp of the concept of death.

* It's been too long since I read it and I don't remember how old Vardaman is supposed to be. Memory places him as a slow teenager.