Where to Begin             How about with invasion: muskets versus bows and arrows? Wind-borne lamentations. Later, clinking chains, songs of woeful repetition. The worst kind of karma, evil spreading out in concentric circles, dispersing like an oil spill, sullying every man, woman, and child. This degradation is Faulkner’s great theme: the darkness of terrible wrongs blighting the … Continue reading Preface to Long Ago Last Summer