I’m still in the middle of Absalom, Absalom! (ALWAYS in the middle, I’ve been reading for days!) and now, at page 200, there’s a new character with a whole new storyline and I’m like, wait a second, joker, can you do that? This is like, if you were reading Beowulf, and you get to the part where Beowulf kills Grendel’s mom (Spoiler Alert? Piss off.) and then when things start quieting down you learn that Grendel had some New Orleans French kid. And now you gotta read all about how horrible HE is.
Is there a payoff for reading this? At the end of the book is there a card you mail in and someone, I don’t care who, sends you a hundred-dollar bill?
Tags: Beowulf, William Faulkner
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