Faulkner

==="I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red an dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past." ===

= = = = =//Light in August //=


 * Setting: 1930s, rural Mississipi**

Biblical Allusions
__**Doctrine of Original Sin:**__ **http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Original_Sin**

__**Jungian Archetypes**__: **http://www.csulb.edu/~csnider/jungian.outline.html** (Note especially the Hero, Antihero, Scapegoat, and Fool)

==Then to Stanley it all went bad, souring, rotting, stranding him with a mound of debt, the useless passport tossed to the floor, looking out the window to the jet-strewn skies. The passport lay in last night's pizza crumbs. It looked small now. It seemed to shrink: faded, powerless as a grocery receipt, even its gold embossing lackluster and dim.==