Hike with Brett, Karen, Katherine and Jeremy to Island Ridge and Henson Creek 7 Feb 2015

The door leading to the balcony of Rowan Oak where William Faulkner's ghost flung herself to her death. Faulkner was known among the children in the family for his ghost stories. The ghost of Rowan Oak was his favorite to tell.

Penguin First edition published in 1938

Shortoff Mountain in the Ice

Faulkner's daughter Jill's bedroom at Rowan Oak, William Faulkner's Oxford, Mississippi home from 1930 until his death in 1962.

In Oxford Mississippi

Faulkner's outline for "A Fable" which he wrote on the wall of his study.

Bedrooms

I read "A Rose for Emily" tonight and liked it a lot (reminded me of Stephen King, but maybe a little subtler). Now it's on to The Sound and the Fury. I'm pretty excited because (1) it's my wife's favorite author and (2) she says I'll like it and she's smart about such things.

This is the stack of books on the little table pretending to be my nightstand: Faulkner, my journal, selected works of St. Thomas Aquinas, The Writing Life (Annie Dillard), NIV study Bible, yellow legal pad (poetry notebook), King James Bible (from confirmation). Bigger stack than I realized now that I list it out.

And the thing is, most of this stack gets left untouched. Maybe I secretly hope I'm getting wiser and more knowledgeable through osmosis each night.

Considered William Faulkner's worst novel. Nice cover though.

The rest of the night: music, The Sound and the Fury, and a bottle of Castillo de Montearagon (2001).

I'm living the life.

Lafayette County, Mississippi

Hike with Brett, Karen, Katherine and Jeremy to Island Ridge and Henson Creek 7 Feb 2015

First published in Penguin in 1953.

This reprint as a Modern Classic published in 1965

Cover illustration by André François

This is scan from the internet and not a scan from my own collection

Hike with Brett, Karen, Katherine and Jeremy to Island Ridge and Henson Creek 7 Feb 2015

Hike with Brett, Karen, Katherine and Jeremy to Island Ridge and Henson Creek 7 Feb 2015

A church in Lafayette County, Mississippi.

wrote the plot of a book on a bedroom wall of his home

Brazópolis, MG.

EPSON DSC picture

Bedrooms

Kreuzberg, Berlin

“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.”

William Faulkner

Faulkner put his carpentry skills to use building these shelves. He designed the locking compartments at the lower right to hold his ammunition.