Volume 21, Number 11 · June 27, 1974
Mr. Blotner, Mr. Feaster, and Mr. Faulkner
By William H. Gass
Faulkner: A Biography
by Joseph Blotner
Random House, 1,846 of text, 269 of notes (2 volumes) pp., $25.00
Be attentive: Mr. Feaster is emerging from his bath. There he has spent some fifteen minutes soaking, the warm gray water high as his collar. He has been considering what the heat of his tub has done to his sperm, for he has read that such heat kills, penetrating even the soft protective sacking of the scrotum; and he has been pondering, consequently, the possibilities lost, the thousand or moreso lives unrealized, the risks untaken, sparks unstruck, the deaths for which he cannot be held accountable—not by the state, or even by the papacy.
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