A. She in turn had told him - indeed, had summoned him in order to entrust him with - another story, one from long ago, before the Civil War. B. Most of the time, it’s a white character using the word - or, most conspicuously, the novel itself, in ts voice - with an uglier edge C. The same few passages, in the very first pages, remind me of this - they’re markings on an entryway - sudden bursts of bristly adjective clusters. D. It may represent the colosseum American literature came to producing an analog for “Ulysses,” which influenced it deeply - each in its way is a provincial Modernist novel about a young man trying to awaken from history - and like “Ulysses,” it lives as a book more praised than read, or more esteemed than enjoyed.
