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“How did Faulkner pull it off?” is a question many a fledgling writer has asked themselves while struggling through a period of apprenticeship like that novelist John Barth describes in his 1999 talk "My Faulkner." Barth “reorchestrated” his literary heroes, he says, “in search of my writerly self... downloading my innumerable predecessors as only an insatiable green apprentice can.” Surely a great many writers can relate when Barth says, “it was Faulkner at his most involuted and incantatory who most enchanted me.” For many a writer, the Faulknerian sentence is an irresistible labyrinth. His syntax has a way of weaving itself into the unconscious, emerging as fair to middling imitation.
While studying at Johns Hopkins University, Barth found himself writing about his native Eastern Shore Maryland in a pastiche style of “middle Faulkner and late Joyce.” He may have won some praise from a visiting young William Styron, “but the finished opus didn’t fly—for one thing, because Faulkner intimately knew his Snopses and Compsons and Sartorises, as I did not know my made-up denizens of the Maryland marsh.” The advice to write only what you know may not be worth much as a universal commandment. But studying the way that Faulkner wrote when he turned to the subjects he knew best provides an object lesson on how powerful a literary resource intimacy can be
Answer:
How John and Paul's reaction was different is that John wanted to go to the police about what was in the bag. Paul wanted to find out what the map led to. He wanted to investigate and see what they could find.
How their reactions were similar is that, at the end, John was in to find out what the map led to so Paul and john wanted to find what the map led too.
Explanation:
In chapter 4 in the story summer in New York city all of this information is their.
<span>the Dominican Republic.</span>
Answer:
D.It is
Explanation:
The word 'it's' is a homophone for the possessive pronoun 'its. ' Notice that one has an apostrophe and the other doesn't.
It in fact, is C. He used imagery to present the subject.
